'File XXIX/2 Slavery in Kuwait'

Title:

'File XXIX/2 Slavery in Kuwait'

Date:

1907/1929

Description:

Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, printed reports, memoranda, and notes, relating to the manumission procedure in Kuwait. Correspondence also discusses the procedure to follow if Kuwait slaves take refuge at other British agencies in the Gulf. Further discussion surrounds the issue of consistency of practice and whether guidelines should be issued by the Government of India.Included in the volume is a copy (ff 34-44) of typed notes 'Part 1:Notes for Guidance on Persian shore of Persian Gulf; Part 2: Notes for guidance on Arabian shore of Persian Gulf' with sections on Kuwait, Bahrain, Maskat and Trucial Coast.Also included (folio 79) is a copy of the proclamation issued by the Government of India in 1873 'notifiying the penalites which British subjects will incur by illegally possessing and in any way trafficking in slaves, or aiding others in such traffic.'The principal correspondents in the volume include the Political Agent, Kuwait (Stuart George Knox; James Carmichael More); the Political Agent, Bahrain (Francis Beville Prideaux); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department (Sir Louis William Dane); the Assistant Resident, Bushire (Richard Lockington Birdwood); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Mubarak bin Sabah al-Sabah; Shaikh Salim al-Mubarak al-Sabah).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 148; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-147, and ff 3-133; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slavery
Slave emancipation
Colonial administration

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000020_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000020_en
IOR/R/15/5/85
IOR/R/15/5/85

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