‘Slave Trade’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Slave Trade’
- Date:
- 1843/1843
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the fifth in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89998, 89999, 90001, and 90002). The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Atkins Hamerton, Her Majesty’s Consul and Agent in the dominions of His Highness the Imam of Muscat; Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden.This item concerns:Hamerton’s observations of the increase in the slave trade at ZanzibarHaines’s report of his rescue of a young enslaved girl named Shockowar at Aden, who had been conveyed there by Hadj Abdulla [Ḥājjī ‘Abdullāh al-Ḥabashī].The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 234 and terminates at f 242, 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:
- Abduction
Slave trade - Geographic region:
- Zanzibar
Aden - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000659.0x00001a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000659.0x00001a_en
IOR/F/4/2014/90000
IOR/F/4/2014/90000