Yarjejeniyar Hamerton

Yarjejeniyar Hamerton wata yarjejeniya ce tsakanin Biritaniya da Daular Omani a shekara ta 1845. An ba shi suna bayan Atkins Hamerton, wanda ya yi shawarwari da yarjejeniyar a madadin Biritaniya. Yarjejeniyar dai ta yi tsokaci ne kan batun cinikin bayi na Zanzibar tsakanin gaɓar tekun Swahili da ke Zanzibar da Oman a yankin Larabawa, wanda a lokacin shi ne babban ɓangare na cinikin bayi na tsohon tekun Indiya.Asian and African Systems of Slavery. (1980). Storbritannien: University of California Press. p. 78

Yarjejeniyar Hammerton ta haramta cinikin bayi don zama doka kawai a cikin yankin Zanzibar, amma Zanzibar ta ci gaba da shigo da bayi daga Kilwa a gaɓar tekun gabashin Afirka zuwa Madagascar da Comoros tare da takaddun hukuma don cinikin bayi na doka a arewa.Asian and African Systems of Slavery. (1980). Storbritannien: University of California Press. p. 78 

 Tarihi 
Hamerton abokin Said bin Sultan ne, sarkin daular Omani na ƙarshe, tare da sarkin ya baiwa Hamerton wani gini da ke kusa da teku a tsakiyar gari a matsayin wurin zama, yana bada haya.  Turawan Ingila sun yi sha'awar yin amfani da wannan abota don kawo ƙarshen cinikin bayi a Zanzibar, wanda ke bunƙasa a lokacin. Yarjejeniyar Moresby ta shekarar 1822 ta hana cinikin bayi na Zanzibar, amma ba ta hana shi ba.

Don haka an gaya wa Hamerton lokacin da yake hutu a Bombay a shekarar 1843 cewa Kamfanin yana son ya shiga tsakani da Said. An fi yin hakan cikin sauƙi fiye da yadda aka yi, kamar yadda Said ya mayar da martani ga tsokanar Hamerton ta hanyar tunatar da shi cewa Musulunci ya amince da bauta: "Alƙur'ani, kalmar Allah ... ya ƙulla shi, kuma Larabawa, na dukan Mahomedans, mutanen da Ubangiji ya ɗauka a matsayin mafi cancantar alheri, suna da hakkin su bautar da kafirai." 

Amma Hamerton ya kasance mai sasantawa mai gamsarwa kuma sakamakon aikinsa shine yarjejeniya da Said ya sanya hannu a cikin shekarar 1845, wanda aka sani da "Yarjejeniyar Hamerton" - duk da yawancin ayyukan da Lord Aberdeen da Ofishin Harkokin Waje  suka yi wanda ya haramta fitar da bayi daga Zanzibar zuwa yankin Gulf Persian.

Ba da daɗewa ba ya zama bayyananne, duk da haka, cewa wannan kawai sultan da Kamfanin ne suka yi, wanda ba ya yin komai don aiwatar da sharuɗɗan yarjejeniyar, kuma Burtaniya tana da jiragen yaki kaɗan a yankin. Don haka cinikin bayi ya ci gaba kamar yadda ya gabata, tare da Hamerton yana la'akari da cewa kashi uku cikin huɗu na yawan mutanen Zanzibar bayi ne.

Yarjejeniyar Frere ta biyo baya a cikin shekarar 1873.

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