Letter and Enclosures from Commodore Sir Leopold George Heath on the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and Suggestions for its Suppression
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Letter and Enclosures from Commodore Sir Leopold George Heath on the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and Suggestions for its Suppression
- Date:
- 1869/1869
- Description:
- Abstract: This file contains copies of a series of letters (and their various enclosures) between Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath, Commander of HMS Octaviaand the following individuals:The Secretary of the Admiralty, Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox;Britain's Agent in Zanzibar, Henry Adrian Churchill;The Secretary of the Admiralty, William Edward Baxter;The Governor of Bombay, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald.The correspondence, that dates from October 1868 to June 1869, concerns Commodore Heath's visit to Zanzibar regarding the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa and the means he suggested in order to stop it.Physical description: Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 92, and terminates at f 97, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Slave trade
- Geographic region:
- Zanzibar
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000833.0x000104_ar
81055/vdc_100000000833.0x000104_en
IOR/L/PS/18/B85
IOR/L/PS/18/B85