'File A/10 Trading in slaves on the Trucial Coast'

Title:

'File A/10 Trading in slaves on the Trucial Coast'

Date:

1935/1941

Description:

Abstract: The file contains correspondence and papers relating to fourteen separate slave trading incidents reported on the Trucial Coast by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). The incidents include an owner's attempt to sell his servant's daughter into slavery, and the trafficking of persons from Persia to the Trucial Coast, and the sale of slaves by their owners.The Residency Agent sent reports of the incidents to the Bahrain Political Agency, accompanied by statements from those involved (witnesses, victims, the accused traders) and correspondence exchanged between the Agent and the ruler in whose dominion the incident took place. These papers were sent to the Bahrain Agency as a bundle of papers, and included copies of the original Arabic correspondence, with accompanying English translations. An original copy of a travel permit (issued by the Political Agency in Bahrain, and confiscated by the Sharjah Agent from a suspected slave trader) is included in the file (folio 11C).Physical description: Foliation: The main foliation sequence begins on the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled and can be found in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Foliation errors: 11A, 11B and 11C; 132A and 132B; 359A and 359B; 383A and 383B; 405A and 405B; 406A, 406B and 406C; 407A and 407B.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slave emancipation
Slave trade

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000247_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000247_en
IOR/R/15/2/1848
IOR/R/15/2/1848

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