Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar

[1] He succeeded his elder half-brother Majid in 1871, having openly and adamantly contested his rule,[2] and at one point was arrested for treason and exiled to India and Bombay.Their sister Sayyida Salme bint Said (later Emily Ruete) acted (at the age of fifteen) as secretary of Barghash's party.Ruote wrote in 1886: It is a well-known fact in Zanzibar that Barghash, as soon as he had ascended the throne in 1870, suddenly and without any cause cast our second youngest brother Chalîfe into prison.In June 1873 John Kirk was acting British Consul and received simultaneous and contradictory instructions from London, one to issue an ultimatum to the Sultan under threat of blockade that the slave trade must be unequivocally stopped and the slave market closed, and the other not to actually enforce a blockade which might be taken as an act of war pushing Zanzibar towards French protection.In 1896, Bargash's son Khalid proclaimed himself sultan but was deposed after rejecting a British ultimatum which led to the 40 minute Anglo-Zanzibar War.
Barghash bin Said with his ministers
Sayyid Barghash
Women at the Court of the Sultan of Zanzibar, 1880s.
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