The descendants of freed slaves in Kenya are seeking official recognition of their ethnicities, which are not registered.
Their ancestors were rescued from ships bound for Zanzibar following a British ban on the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports from Freretown in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa, where many of the freed slaves settled.
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Their ancestors were rescued from ships bound for Zanzibar following a British ban on the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports from Freretown in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa, where many of the freed slaves settled.
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#Kenya #Freretown #Slavery
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- Kenya
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- slaveryhistory, mombasa, humanrights, kenya, slaves, decendants
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