In the East African campaign of World War I, British and Empire forces attacked Bagamoyo in August 1916.

Jun 8, 2003 · Although not nearly as well-known as the West African slave port on Senegal's Goree Island or the 16th-century slave castles on Ghana's Atlantic coast, the sleepy, decrepit …

In Bagamoyo, slaves are imprisoned and brought to the slave market in Zanzibar by ship at night. Accordingly, Bagamoyo ("Bwaga-Moyo") also means "lay down your heart". Anyone who is …

Bagamoyo had frequent slave smuggling in the late nineteenth century when parti caravan porters were there.Even as late as 1900, the Germans were unable to prove that slavenapping had …

Following Livingstone’s death, the remaining members of his caravan made the decision to transport his remains to Bagamoyo on the east African coast. After disinterring and embalming …

Many people know that Western Africa played a large role in the slave trade, but the slave trade flourished in Bagamoyo and other places on the East Coast as well. The area was also known …

Bagamoyo was the major slave trading post in East Africa. The name is derived in a Swahili language, which means “ lay down your heart “, was probably given this name because …

Bagamoyo emerged as the leading export town for ivory and copal on account of the large number of trading caravans that arrived there from the interior. Yet Sultan Said did not …

The Bagamoyo slave market used to be located here under a group of trees. According to oral tradition, the slaves were supposedly brought to the beach from here through an underground …

Jul 14, 2020 · From roughly 1840-1870, thousands at a time were force marched from interior kingdoms to the sea. Initially, in the late 1700s, the main use of slaves was to carry ivory …