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The Anglo-Zanzibar War by Clay Lane

It lasted barely forty minutes, but it brought slavery to an end in the little island territory.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War on the 27th of August 1896 is the shortest in British history, but to the people of Zanzibar it meant everything.

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