‘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 seventh in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89998, 89999, 90000, and 90001). The correspondents are: the government of India and Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robertson, Political Agent in the Persian Gulf; and the Native Agent at Muscat [Khwāji Rūbin bin Aṣlān].The item concerns previous letters sent in the series about the punishment for engaging in the slave trade, and mentions that the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] issued a notification forbidding the public sale of enslaved people in early May 1843.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 256 and terminates at f 261, 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
- Geographic region:
- Muscat
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000659.0x00001c_ar
81055/vdc_100000000659.0x00001c_en
IOR/F/4/2014/90002
IOR/F/4/2014/90002