‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the importation of Slaves into Oman and Ras-el-Khymah.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Persian Gulf. Relative to the importation of Slaves into Oman and Ras-el-Khymah.’
- Date:
- 1853/1853
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 November 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2536/147461. It is the sixth in a series of seven items about the 'slave trade' [trade in enslaved people].The item relates to reports from Hajee Yacoob [Ḥājjī Ya‘qūb], Native Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, about 'slave trade' activity between Zanzibar, Amulgavine [Umm al-Qaywayn], Rusul Khymah [Ra’s al-Khaymah], and the Batinah coast of Oman. His reports include:Details of the vessels involved and the numbers of enslaved people taken onshoreCopy of a letter to him from the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat on the subject of the 'slave trade'Communications he has had with: Sheik Abdullah ben Rashid [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā], Sheik of Amulgavine; Abdullah ben Sultan [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Sulṭān], Sheikh of Shargah; and other 'chiefs' of areas involved in the tradeGeneral updates from Shargah regarding Sheik Sultan ben Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī], Ameer Fysul [Amir Fayṣal bin Turki bin Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd], and Sheikh Saeed ben Tahnoon [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān].Kemball forwards these reports on to the Government of Bombay with his own comments on the 'slave trade' activity and how to suppress it. The Government in turn forwards the above to Sir Henry John Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, requesting information on efforts to suppress the trade.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '161 1854', 'Collection', 'Vol: 6', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection was described as 'No. 1 of No. 108 of 1853' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 838, and terminates at f 849, 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
Intelligence - Geographic region:
- Batinah Coast
Trucial Coast - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100108815239.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100108815239.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2536/147466
IOR/F/4/2536/147466