After the conquest of Jubaland, the conquerers started to farm the territory using their newly acquired slaves in addition to rearing livestock. Janay Abdalle in Lower Jubba was a hub for agriculture then producing grain that supplied Kismayo and was exported.
The ogaden/darood & various other clans who re-conquered Juba to drive out the the Oromo invaders at the behest of Bardheere Sultans and the native Somali clans in the area or emigrated to portions of un-inhabited arable lands, they themselves had to settle down and establish the areas first , plant, irrigate it, clear the land and measure the land and its usage capacity etc and farm the land themselves over the course of many years before they even imported slave labour for large scale cash crop production and they had to build up the money and purchasing power to even aquire them.
They also had to open up and create markets, outlets and towns for exports and trade as well. So it did not begin with aquisition of slaves for them either
I briefly go into it in another thread and how it went a few years first between establishing land, then establishing interior markets and then a coastal outlet and then commercial relations with other neighboring lands abroad. It was very systematic.
From the same text i shared earlier in another thread about Hawiye farmers in the inlands, It also mentions Kismaayo the southern coastal city which did not exist until 1869 when Somali clans in Upper Jubba valley opened it up for trade and later they invited Majerteen/Harti traders to help expand the trade:
''Neverthelesss Kismayu is the natural outlet of the vast basin of the Juba, which reaches the sea about 12 miles to the north-east. In 1869 this town did not yet exist, but in that year some Somali emigrants from the Upper Jubba Valley, and especially from the neighbourhood of Bardera or Bal Tir, the chief market of the interior, established themselves at this favourable point of the coast, and opened direct commercial relations with Zanzibar.
Later some members of Mijuirtin tribe, the most energetic traders on the whole seaboard also settled in the same place, the population of which had already risen to eight thousand six hundred in the year 1873."
Some pictures of Kismaayo during the late 1800- early 1900s
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