‘Slave Trade in the Red Sea & Persian Gulf. Vol: 6’

Title:

‘Slave Trade in the Red Sea & Persian Gulf. Vol: 6’

Date:

1843/1844

Description:

Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, resolutions, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Samuel Hennell, the Resident in the Persian Gulf; Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Consul in the Dominion of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat; and Rubiel bin Uslan [Reuben bin Aslan], British Agent at Muscat. It is the sixth in a series of six items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2066/94846, IOR/F/4/2066/94847, IOR/F/4/2066/94848, IOR/F/4/2066/94849, and IOR/F/4/2066/94850).The item concerns:The case of ‘Ali Abdulla, supercargo of the Aden Merchant, who was accused of buying an enslaved boy in AdenThe effect at Zanzibar of recent proclamations of the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] about the trade in enslaved peopleThe responsibility for the enforcement of the order of the Imaum prohibiting the sale of enslaved people to, or their purchase from, British subjectsThe attempts of Rubiel bin Uslan and Hennell to liberate five enslaved Indian subjects at Muscat, and correspondence with the Imaum of Muscat and the Acting Governor of Muscat, Syud Thooenee bin Sueed [Sayyid Thuwainī bin Sa'īd Āl Bū Sa'īd] on the subjectA plan to reunite an Indian girl rescued from slavery in Muscat with her friends in Moradabad.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 73, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4548, [Season 18]44’, ‘Collection No 1 of No 45’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 478 and terminates at f 547, 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:

Abduction
Slave trade

Geographic region:

Zanzibar
Muscat
Moradabad

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100023596290.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100023596290.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2066/94851
IOR/F/4/2066/94851

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