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Zanzibar paisa, 1299 AH (1882 AD), bronze coin- diameter 25mm. Zanzibar was the center of the of the East African slave trade, until it became a signatory of the Moresby Treaty- abolishing it in 1822. The trade continued to a lesser degree up to 1873 when Captain John Kirk told, the at that time, Sultan Barghash, a total blockade of Zanzibar was imminent, unless this practice was abandoned. It should be noted although that Zanzibar never became a British colony it did become a protectorate from 1890-1963, when Zanzibar merged with Tanganyika to become Tanzania. Free shipping.