'Report of Inter-Departmental Committee on Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere's recommendations for the suppression of the East African Slave Trade'
Date:
1873/1873
Description:
Abstract: This file is a report written by an Inter-Departmental Committee in response to recommendations made by Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere for the suppression of the East African Slave Trade after he had visited the region as a Special Envoy of the Foreign Office.The report is divided into two parallel columns, one listing Sir Bartle Frere's recommendations and another giving the committee's observations and comments on them.The committee was composed of William Henry Wylde of the Foreign Office, John Wiliams Kaye of the India Office, Robert Hall and J H Cole.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 100, and terminates at f 103, 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.