‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade. Vol: 3’

Title:

‘Persian Gulf – Slave Trade. Vol: 3’

Date:

1844/1844

Description:

Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, memoranda, 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, Resident in the Persian Gulf; Philip LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; and the Government of India. It is the third in a series of nine items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2087/96920, IOR/F/4/2087/96921, IOR/F/4/2087/96923, IOR/F/4/2087/96924, IOR/F/4/2087/96925, IOR/F/4/2087/96926, IOR/F/4/2087/96927, and IOR/F/4/2087/96928).The item concerns four previously enslaved people who were liberated from Muscat and taken to Bombay. The case of two of them, both women who wished to return to Muscat, is discussed.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 290/45, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4760’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 864 and terminates at f 889, 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:

Slave trade

Geographic region:

Muscat

Rights:

المُلكية العامة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100098589908.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098589908.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2087/96922
IOR/F/4/2087/96922

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