| Notes | All Makwas. The Thetis landed 240 on September 19. Most of the slaves delivered by the Thetis were of the Makua "tribe"; they were rescued from a dhow running them from Portuguese Mozambique to Madagascar. When they were caught, all of them suffered from cramping, while fifty-three suffered from virulent itch as a result of being forced, by want of space, to remain seated in their excrement. In spite of their suffering, the officers of the Thetis considered their condition "much superior" to the general condition of slaves rescued from slave ships. The abstract shows a distribution of people on board: 35 men, 16 boys above 10 yrs, 74 boys under 10, 6 boys under 3; 53 women, 19 girls over 10, 35 girls under 10, 4 girls under 3. |
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| Sources | The National Archives, UK, FO 84/1417, "Abstract of Slaves Captured," 17 Sep. 1875, f. 266; The National Archives, UK, FO 84-1486, "Statement of Freed Slaves received from H.M. Consul General Zanzibar by Church Mission Society Mombasa East Africa," Sep. 1875 - Mar. 1877, f. 77; "List of the Adjudications in the Vice-Admiralty Courts and Mixed Courts of Justice," 31 Dec. 1875, in T. P. O'Neill, T. F. Turley, et al., eds., Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vol. 55 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968-1969), 182; Matthew S. Hopper "Liberated Africans in Indian Ocean Spreadsheet" (donated to Liberated Africans in 2018); Matthew S. Hopper, “Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World,” in Richard Anderson, and Henry B. Lovejoy, Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2020), 215-237; Matthew S. Hopper, Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015); The National Archives, UK, Admiralty, 53/10557.Matthew S. Hopper "Liberated Africans in Indian Ocean Spreadsheet" (donated to Liberated Africans in 2018); Matthew S. Hopper, “Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World,” in Richard Anderson, and Henry B. Lovejoy, Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2020), 215-237; Matthew S. Hopper, Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015); The National Archives, UK, Admiralty, 53/10730. |
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