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English: IBEA Company officials like George Mackenzie on 1st Jan 1889 presenting freedom papers to 1,422 runaway slaves at Rabai which was the largest Christian Mission settlement on the Kenyan coast for fugitive slaves in East Africa.
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Source British East Africa or IBEAC: A History of the Formation and Work of the Imperial British East Africa Company, chapter II: The naval blockade––The runaway slaves, by PL McDermott, 1895
Author Sir George Sutherland Mackenzie

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IBEA Co. officials in Jan 1889 presenting freedom papers to 1,422 runaway slaves at Rabai - largest Christian Mission settlement on the Kenyan coast for fugitive slaves in East Africa.

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