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33-719: Brussels Conference may refer to: the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90 the Brussels Conference (1892) , the fourth and last of the 19th-century International Monetary Conferences the Brussels Conference (1920) , the next International Monetary Conference the Brussels Conference on Syria and the Region , held annually from 2017 See also [ edit ] International Monetary and Economic Conferences Topics referred to by

66-622: A personal union with its King. It was privately controlled by Leopold II, although he never personally visited the state. During the Scramble for Africa in the mid-1880s, despite the humanitarian promises of the Berlin Colonial Conference , the colonial powers' primary concerns were territorial and economic. This was to change in 1888. In major speeches in Paris and London, Cardinal Charles Lavigerie , who had launched

99-582: A crusade against slavery , denounced the horrors of the Arab slave trade , in particular the Zanzibar slave trade . He urged immediate action in the form of an international militia of volunteers to combat the slave trade in East Africa . Leopold II followed Lavigerie's preaching tour intently. He was particularly concerned by the plans to send out a private international militia. After all, this could mean

132-518: A group of about 100 men into Central Africa seeking slaves and ivory. After plundering several large swathes of land, he returned to Zanzibar to consolidate his resources and recruit for his forces. Following this he returned to mainland Africa. Tippu Tip built a slave-trading empire, and is considered the second wealthiest Muslim slave trader in history, using the proceeds to establish clove plantations on Zanzibar . Abdul Sheriff reported that, when he left for his twelve years of "empire building" on

165-554: A plan for more colonialism . This was based on the reasoning that anything that contributed to the expansion of European influence should limit the scope of action of the slave traders. The General Act of the Brussels Conference stipulated that the organisation of legal , religious and military services in African colonies and protectorates was the best means of combating the slave trade . An important item on

198-639: A threat to the Arab-Swahili trade. The Free State government sent a force under commander Francis Dhanis to the East. Dhanis had an early success when chief Ngongo Lutete changed sides from Sefu's to his. The better armed and organised Belgian force defeated their opponents in several fights until the death of Sefu on 20 October 1893, and finally forcing also Rumaliza to flee to German territory in 1895. After returning to Zanzibar around 1890/91, Tippu Tip retired. He set out to write an account of his life, which

231-489: A variety of nations. This allowed the English navy to examine foreign ships for transporting slaves. England sought a global agreement at the conference that would allow the right of investigation. France , however, had always opposed that right because it made England's superior maritime the police navy, The Act represented a compromise between the two positions. Finally, the slave trade could only be completely abolished if

264-543: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889%E2%80%9390 Leopold II , the power-thirsty King of the Belgians , had always regretted the restrictions of power imposed on him by his position as a constitutional monarch . He therefore embarked on the project of carving out an absolute monarchy of his own in Africa, which led to

297-640: Is the first example of the literary genre of autobiography in the Bantu Swahili language . Dr. Heinrich Brode, who knew him in Zanzibar, transcribed the manuscript into Roman script and translated it into German. It was subsequently translated into English and published in Britain in 1907. Tippu Tip died June 13, 1905, of malaria (according to Brode) in his home in Stone Town , the main town on

330-864: The Bahr el Ghazal area as a result of the Mahdi uprising in Sudan. Tippu Tip travelled back to the Upper Congo in the company of Stanley, but this time by way of the Atlantic coast and up the Congo River . Aside from its doubtful usefulness, the relief expedition was marred by the near annihilation of its rearguard. After his tenure as governor, the Congo–Arab War broke out. Both sides fought with armies consisting mostly of local African soldiers fighting under

363-665: The Congo Basin region and thus becoming the best-known slave trader in Africa, supplying much of the world with enslaved Africans. He also bought ivory from WaManyema suppliers in Kasongo, the capital of the Sultanate of Utetera and resold it at coastal ports. Based on descriptions of his age at different points in his life, it is believed that Tippu Tip was born around 1832 in Zanzibar. Tippu Tip's mother, Bint Habib bin Bushir,

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396-789: The Stanley Falls District in the Congo Free State . Both Leopold and Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar agreed and on February 24, 1887, Tippu Tip accepted. At the same time, he agreed to man the expedition which Stanley had been commissioned to organize for the purpose of rescuing Emin Pasha (E. Schnitzer), the German governor of Equatoria (a region of Ottoman Egypt , today in South Sudan ) who had been stranded in

429-694: The general act and declaration of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference could finally be signed. Briefly, the conference led to the negotiation of the first treaty abolishing the Arab slave trade , the Brussels Convention, which was adopted in 1890 and entered into force on 2 April 1892. On 10 September 1919, the Convention of Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1919 to revise the General Act of Berlin of 1885 and

462-559: The slave trade . Belgium had been specially chosen to allay Portuguese and French suspicions. On 18 November 1889, delegates of 17 countries met in Brussels for eight intermittent months. The conference meetings took place at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Lambermont was appointed president of the conference. The provisions of the General Act to combat the slave trade in the African interior actually amounted to

495-774: The Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference, which was due to take place in November 1889, the British diplomatic campaign on the Porte had a breakthrough. The British Foreign Office pointed out to the Porte that the Ottoman Empire was due to be met with criticism for their lack of enforcement of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1880 at the upcoming Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference, unless they acted took action before then, but that serious anti-slavery action would win

528-742: The Europeans. When, in August 1886, fighting broke out between the Swahili and the representatives of King Leopold II of Belgium at Stanley Falls , al-Murjabī went to the Belgian consul at Zanzibar to assure him of his "good intentions". Although he was still a force in Central African politics, he could see by 1886 that power in the region was shifting. In early 1887, Stanley arrived in Zanzibar and proposed that Tippu Tip be made governor of

561-562: The General Act and Declaration of Brussels of 1890, extended prohibition by securing "the complete suppression of slavery in all its forms and of the slave trade by land and sea", paving the way for the UN Slavery Convention of 25 September 1926 . Tippu Tip Tippu Tip , or Tippu Tib (c. 1837 – June 14, 1905), real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī ( Arabic : حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي ),

594-643: The German capital of Dar es Salaam in present-day Kigamboni District. Throughout his lifetime Hamad bin Muhammad bin Juma bin Rajab el Murjebi was more commonly known as Tippu Tib , which translates to "the gatherer together of wealth". According to him, he was given the nickname Tippu Tip after the "tiptip" sound that his guns gave off during expeditions in Chungu territory. At a relatively young age, Tippu Tip led

627-529: The Ottoman Empire the European opinion. The British diplomatic pressure finally gave results when Sultan Abdul Hamid II introduced the Kanunname of 1889 on 30 December 1889, the first law code (in contrast to previous nominal decrees) that formally banned slave trade in the Ottoman Empire. Britain, after consultation with the German government, requested Belgium to convene an international conference on

660-556: The agenda was also the regulation of arms imports. The arms trade not only strengthened the power of the Arabo-Swahilis , but guns and ammunition were also the usual means of exchange to obtain slaves and vice versa. To effectively combat the slave trade at sea, there had to be extensive control of shipping. Earlier in the fight against the Trans-Atlantic slave trade , England had concluded maritime treaties with

693-661: The command of either Arab or European leaders. When Tippu Tip left the Congo, the authority of King Leopold's Free State was still very weak in the Eastern parts of the territory and the power lay largely with local Arabic or Swahili strongmen. Amongst these were Tippu Tip's son Sefu bin Hamid and a trader known as Rumaliza in the area close to Lake Tanganyika . In 1892, Sefu bin Hamed attacked Belgian ivory traders, who were seen as

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726-523: The conquest of his Congo. Such an army corps, he felt, could only be justified if it was under the leadership of the Congolese government. Leopold also feared that Lavigerie, who in his previous speeches had accused Tippu Tip of slave trading, might harm the Arab policy of his Congo Free State . After meeting Leopold, however, Lavigerie renounced an international volunteer corps. An anti-slavery expedition

759-523: The countries, which were on the front line against the slave trade, had to be somewhat accommodated. After all, their humanitarian task cost a lot of money. Initially, the Netherlands and the United States opposed the proposal. but after long arduous negotiations and great diplomatic skill on the part of Leopold II , both sides came to an agreement, Leopold II struck home and on 2 July,

792-558: The creation of the Congo Free State . Leopold was able to seize the region by convincing other European states at the Berlin Conference on Africa that he was involved in humanitarian and philanthropic work and would not tax trade. Via the International Association of the Congo , he was able to lay claim to most of the Congo Basin . The Congo Free State operated as a separate nation from Belgium, in

825-753: The demand for new slaves disappeared. Thus, to eradicate the Eastern slave trade once and for all, slavery had to be abolished in the destination countries themselves. However, the conference did not go that far: only the importation of slaves was addressed. Influenced by the conference, the Ottoman Empire passed a new law that banned the import, transit and export of slaves, but left the institution of slavery untouched. Fugitive and illegally imported slaves had to be issued letters of release. Import duties were Leopold's primary concern. The Berlin Act had banned

858-456: The levying of import duties in the Congo Basin for a period of 20 years. Now he wanted to undo this after only five years. In a prior correspondence with England, Leopold had requested that all countries that had to incur expenses in the fight against the slave trade be allowed to levy a moderate import duty; there was no objection to this. Leopold therefore wanted this to be included in the conference programme, but Lambermont believed caution

891-724: The mainland, he had no plantations of his own. By 1895, he had acquired "seven 'shambas' [plantations] and 10,000 slaves". He met and helped several Western explorers of the African continent , including David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley . Between 1884 and 1887, he claimed the Eastern Congo for himself and for the Sultan of Zanzibar, Bargash bin Said el Busaidi . In spite of his position as protector of Zanzibar's interests in Congo , he managed to maintain good relations with

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957-577: Was a Muscat Arab of the ruling class. His father and paternal grandfather were coastal Arabs of the Swahili Coast who had taken part in earlier slave-trading expeditions to the interior. His paternal great-grandmother, wife of Rajab bin Mohammed bin Said el Murgebi, was the daughter of Juma bin Mohammed el Nebhani, a member of a respected Muscat ( Oman ) family, and a Bantu woman from the settlement of Mbuamaji, south of what would later become

990-500: Was a result. European colonisation of East and Central Africa posed a number of problems, especially with the Arabo-Swahili power. A clear example was the Arabo-Swahili rebellion that led to the blockade of the east coast of Africa by Germany and Britain. The Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference also indirectly adied the long ongoing British campaign against slave trade and slavery in the Ottoman Empire . In anticipation of

1023-623: Was an Afro-Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. He worked for a succession of sultans of Zanzibar and was the Sultan of Uterera , a short-lived state in Kasongo , Maniema ruled by himself and his son Sefu who was an emir of the local WaManyema . Tippu Tip traded in slaves for Zanzibar 's clove plantations. As part of the large and lucrative trade, he led many trading expeditions into Central Africa , constructing profitable trading posts deep into

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1056-499: Was needed. On 10 May Lambermont submitted the proposal to the conference. He requested the abolition of Article 4 of the Berlin Act and asked that the countries of the conventional Congo basin be allowed to levy an import duty of up to 10 per cent ad valorem , a ban or tax on alcohol was also considered, as it was closely linked to the slave trade. The development of public services to support trade required new revenues. Moreover,

1089-565: Was now to be organised by an exclusively national anti-slavery association in consultation with the colonial authorities concerned. In his Brussels speech, although Lavigerie pointed sharply to the rampant slave trade in Congo Free State, he attributed this to a lack of resources. Lavigerie's preaching tour did not only "breath[e] new life into the antislavery movement ", but also the Anti-Slavery Conference

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