Coll 34/1 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Slave traffic in the Red Sea: Use of Air Patrols'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 34/1 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Slave traffic in the Red Sea: Use of Air Patrols'
- Date:
- 1930/1934
- Description:
- Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to anti-slavery measures in the Red Sea. The correspondence is interdepartmental in nature, principally between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, and the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Further correspondence, mostly as enclosures, is between officials at the Residency in Aden, Embassy in Rome, British Legation in Addis Ababa, Political Department of the Government of Bombay, and the Imam of Yemen, Yehia bin Mohamed Hamid Uddin [Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn].Matters discussed within the file include:The proposal of float-plane patrols along parts of the Red Sea, based on the island of KamaranThe need for an expansion of the intelligence service in the regionQuestion of the involvement of the French and Italian authoritiesQuestion of costs.The file contains extracts from intelligence reports by senior officers aboard sloops on patrol in the Red Sea, such as HMS Lupin, HMS Penzance, HMS Hastings, and HMS Dahlia. These extracts focus on slavery and the traffic of slaves in the area, with details on departure and landing points, overland routes, slave brokers and dealers, and specific cases of seizure or interception.Parliamentary notices are also included in the file, with extracts from Parliamentary sessions in which the Red Sea slave traffic was discussed.The file also contains correspondence that discusses a lecture (folios 60-69) given by Eldon Rutter of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society and a memorandum (folios 22-36) by Sir George Maxwell, British Representative on the Slavery Committee of the League of Nations. Both items concern slavery in the region.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 184; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Geographic region:
- Red Sea
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000298_ar
81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000298_en
IOR/L/PS/12/4088
IOR/L/PS/12/4088