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Abushiri Revolt, Tanzania, 1888-1889


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    • Abushiri Uprising, Tanzania, 1888-1889
    • Bushiri Uprising, Tanzania, 1888-1889
    • Coastal Rebellion, Tanzania, 1888-1889
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    • found: Work cat: Cheret, Gerhard K. Kampf um Bagamojo : die Niederwerfung des Negeraufstandes in Deutsch-Ostafrika durch Wissmann, 1941?(=Battle for Bagamoyo : the defeat of the Negro uprising in German East Africa by Wissmann) page 8 (Bagamoyo is a port city in former German East Africa; it was a center of the Arab slave trade and served in 1889 as the starting point of the Arab revolt, defeated by Hermann von Wissmann) page 32 (Buschiri; on December 15, 1889 the half-blood Arab, encouraged by the English but then betrayed, was hanged)
    • found: Oxford Reference (online), viewed Feb. 1, 2018(Abushiri Revolt, August 1888-89; an Arab revolt against German traders on the East African coast north of Zanzibar; the Arab leader Abushiri (Abu Bashir ibn Salim al-Harthi) united local hostility to German colonization at Pangani when in August 1888 the Germans replaced the Sultan of Zanzibar's flag with their own; the revolt was crushed by the German explorer and administrator Hermann von Wissmann in 1889)
    • found: Journal of East African Studies, v. 7, no. 3, 2013, viewed online February 1, 2018(Locating the local in the Coastal Rebellion of 1888-1890; sometimes referred to as the Abushiri Uprising, occurred along a significant stretch of the East African coastline and lasted for well over a year; by 1890 the German Army had crushed the coastal rebellion and was continuing "pacification" campaigns in the interior of the colony of German East Africa; important event in Tanzanian history; the Bushiri Uprising)
    • notfound: Britannica online, May 2, 2018.
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