'Slave Trade.'

Title:

'Slave Trade.'

Date:

1846/1847

Description:

Abstract: The item consists of three letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 1 October 1846-31 March 1847. The letters refer to attempts to suppress the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people] in the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat’s dominions and on the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf. Enclosures to these letters can be found at: IOR/F/4/2191/107337; IOR/F/4/2191/107338; IOR/F/4/2191/107339; and IOR/F/4/2191/107340. The item is the first in a series of five items on the ‘slave trade’.Extracts of a letter from the Court of Directors to the Government of Bombay, dated 18 November 1846, are included.Additionally, the item contains examples of two forms to be filled in by officers of the Company’s Indian Navy upon seizing vessels engaged in the ‘slave trade’.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5698, Draft 542/47, Collection Vol: 1’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 71, and terminates at f 80, 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 item also contains an original pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Slave trade
Āl Bū Sa'īd dynasty, Imam of Muscat and Oman

Geographic region:

Arabian Peninsula

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100098465849.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098465849.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2191/107336
IOR/F/4/2191/107336

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