Visitors can wander through maze-like streets, where shops, markets, and traditional houses sit alongside huge palaces.

Stone Town’s infamous slave chambers ... Officially abolished in Zanzibar in 1873, the slave trade flourished illegally on the islands for another 35 years, leaving an indelible mark.

As trade activities became more profitable ... Stone Town is also marked as the site where slave trading was finally terminated. "Stone Town bears the memory of all the slaves sold in Zanzibar as well ...

I returned to Stone ... Town, through which slaves were marched in chains to the slave market. The market is today the site of the Anglican Church built in 1876, after the abolition of slave trade.

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the ... talking about her life in Zanzibar There were three main reasons why more slaves were required: 1. The clove plantations on ...