Paper 2 · Africa and Decolonisation
Which of the following was a destination for slaves taken from East Africa?
Athe clove plantations of Zanzibar and Pemba
Bthe gold mines of the Witwatersrand in South Africa
Cthe tea gardens of Ceylon under the British
Dthe cotton mills of Lancashire in Britain
Explanation: Slaves taken from the East African interior were sold into Arabia, Persia, India and the French sugar islands, and many never left the coast at all: they were kept to work the clove plantations that the Sultan of Oman developed on Zanzibar and Pemba.
Derived from ZIMSEC History Paper 2, Jun 2019, Q1