'File A/11 VI Slave trading on the Trucial Coast'

Title:

'File A/11 VI Slave trading on the Trucial Coast'

Date:

1940/1941

Description:

Abstract: The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to slaves' manumission applications heard at Sharjah. For each case, there is the initial correspondence, including the slave's manumission statement, sent from the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi), followed by return correspondence from the Bahrain Agency confirming that a manumission certificate could be issued. Office notes at the end of each case briefly discuss the decision on manumission.In all but two cases included in the file manumission was granted, usually on the grounds either of the slave's ill-treatment by their master, or the prospect of them being sold. In two cases, the British Agent refused manumission: first in the case of a woman who, according to the Sharjah Agent, had visited 'places of prostitution' (folio 122), and second in the case of a man who was alleged to be already free (f 129). The cases featured in the file are also detailed in the Bushire subject file IOR/R/15/1/212.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 83; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Three additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 118-123, ff 191-203 and ff 212-216; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The sequence includes two foliation anomalies: f 29a and f 172a.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slave emancipation
Slave trade

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00024e_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00024e_en
IOR/R/15/2/1855
IOR/R/15/2/1855

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