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Extract from a government report on action against slavery in East Africa, 1895
(Catalogue ref: CAB 37/40/45)
6a 6b
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Catalogue ref: CAB 37/40/45; report on action against slavery in East Africa, 1895
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1 What impression does this source give of life in the British empire in terms of the following issues:
  • the treatment of native peoples in the British empire?
  • attitudes towards the native peoples?
  • the campaign against slavery?
  • Britain's commitment to stopping slavery?
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