‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade – Vol: 2’

Title:

‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade – Vol: 2’

Date:

1847/1848

Description:

Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2280/116915. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the British Agent at Bahrain [Ḥājī Jāsim]; and Syed Soweney [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat. It is the second in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.The item concerns:Syed Soweney’s request for the release of five buggalows [baghlahs] captured because they were carrying enslaved peopleThe difficulty in distinguishing enslaved people being employed as sailors and enslaved people being transported on ships for saleThe growth in the trade in enslaved people on the Persian Coast, particularly at Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], and possible measures to combat it.The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 33’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 412, and terminates at f 425 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

Geographic region:

Bahrein
Lingah

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100098575206.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098575206.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2280/116916
IOR/F/4/2280/116916

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