‘Relating to the Slave Trade Vol: 2’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Relating to the Slave Trade Vol: 2’
- Date:
- 1842/1842
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Board of Control of the East India Company; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Ali bin Nasir, an envoy from the Imam of Muscat; Sayyid Sa‘id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id, the Imam of Muscat. It is the second in a series of two items on the trade in enslaved people (the other is IOR/F/4/1990/88112).The item contains the correspondence between the Earl of Aberdeen and Ali bin Nasir during the latter’s embassy to London on behalf of the Imam of Muscat.The item concerns:The limits on the trade in enslaved people which the British Government wished the Imam of Muscat to impose in his territoriesComplaints from the British that the Imam had not fulfilled his treaty obligationsComplaints from the Imam that the British had not fulfilled their treaty obligations.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 227, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3822A, [Season 18]43’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 252 and terminates at f 276, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Slave trade
Imam of Oman - Geographic region:
- Muscat
Kurrachee - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000344.0x00010f_ar
81055/vdc_100000000344.0x00010f_en
IOR/F/4/1990/88113
IOR/F/4/1990/88113