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85. ‘Slave Trade Vol 1’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of nine items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2087/96921, IOR/F/4/2087/96922, 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:The acquittal of Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh], the supercargo of the Aden Merchanton a charge of trading enslaved peopleThe release of enslaved people at MuscatThe prohibition of selling enslaved people at MuscatThe translation of the Moresby TreatyEnslaved people liberated from Zanzibar, Muscat, and Bahrein [Bahrain]The treaties prohibiting the sale of Somalis, agreed to by the Arab tribesThe agreement between Bourbon [Réunion] and the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] to import free labourers into Bourbon.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 797 and terminates at f 809, 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.
86. ‘Slave Trade Vol: 1’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of six items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2066/94847, IOR/F/4/2066/94848, IOR/F/4/2066/94849, IOR/F/4/2066/94850, and IOR/F/4/2066/94851).The item concerns:The kidnapping of children from the territory of the Nizam of Hyderabad [Mir Farkhunda ‘Ali Khan]The rescue of enslaved Indians from Muscat and Judda [Jeddah]Anti-slavery proclamations of the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id]The cases of individuals accused of importing enslaved people into Muscat and India.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 873, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4548, [Season 18]44’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 316 and terminates at f 338, 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.
87. ‘Slave Trade Vol: 2’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political and secret letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Atkins Hamerton, British Agent at Muscat; Philip LeGeyt, the Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf; Stafford Bettesworth Haines, British Political Agent at Aden. It is the second in a series of three items concerning the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/1958/85478 and IOR/F/4/1959/85480).The item concerns:Instructions to magistrates concerning cases of enslaved women seeking asylum in British territories, including descriptions of individual cases, and details of one case where the Nawab of Sucheen [Nawab of Sachin, Ibrahim Mahomed Yakut Khan I] demanded the return of a dancing girl, claiming that she had stolen from himReports on the extent of the trade in enslaved people at Dieu [Diu] and GoaThe proclamation of the Raja of Suttara [Satara] that the buying or selling of enslaved people in his territory is illegalThe arrival of a Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] boat at Muscat suspected of having on board kidnapped Somalee [Somali] girlsDetails of twenty children who were shipwrecked on their way from Maculla [Al Mukalla] to Judda [Jeddah] to be sold; the subsequent situations found for the children in Aden and BombayThree stowaway boys from Muscat found on board the Orwelland the Hugh Lindsayand their subsequent positionsTwo boys found at Tannah [Thune] who claimed to have been brought from Aden by a Portuguese man to Bombay who later abandoned themThree Indian girls who were rescued from slavery by the Native Agent at Muscat, Rubik bin Uslan [Aslan]; the circumstances of their kidnapping from India; their return to IndiaInvestigations about the prevalence of the kidnapping of Indian women and girls to be sold at Zanzibar, the importation of enslaved people into Bombay, and the involvement of the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘id bin Sulṭan Al Bu Sa‘id]The importation of enslaved people from the coast of Africa to Zanzibar, and from Zanzibar to the Persian GulfProposal of measures to eliminate the trade in enslaved people.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 596, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3593, [Season] 1842’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 695 and terminates at f 866, 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.
88. ‘Slave Trade Vol: 3’
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- 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; the Government of India; Reuben bin Aslan, East India Company Agent at Muscat; and Philip LeGeyt, Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay. It is the third 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/4/2066/94849, IOR/F/4/2066/94850, and IOR/F/4/2066/94851).The item concerns:Investigations in Calcutta [Kolkata] into accusations against ‘Ali Abdulla of the Aden Merchantthat he bought an enslaved boy in AdenThe rescue of a boy at Judda [Jeddah] and attempts to reunite him with his family in Alleppy [Alleppey]The detention of four British Indian subjects enslaved at Muscat, and correspondence with the Acting Governor of Muscat, Syed Sooweynee [Sayyid Thuwaini bin Sa’id Al Bu Sa’id] on the subject.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 16’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 383 and terminates at f 414, 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.
89. ‘Slave Trade in the Red Sea & Persian Gulf. Vol: 2’
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- 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, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Government of India. It is the second in a series of nine items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2087/96920, IOR/F/4/2087/96922, 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:The acquittal of Ali bin Abdulla [‘Alī bin ‘Abdullāh], the supercargo of the Aden Merchanton a charge of trading enslaved peopleAn investigation into whether three Indian women were being kept against their will at Kishm [Qeshm]The arrival at Bombay of four previously enslaved children from Muscat, and their accounts of their livesA proclamation made at Muscat prohibiting the buying or selling of enslaved people from India, and the disappointment of the British that this proclamation was not as wide-ranging as they believed the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] had intended.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 810 and terminates at f 863, 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.
90. ‘Slave Trade in the Red Sea & Persian Gulf. Vol: 6’
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- 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.
91. ‘Persian Gulf Slave Trade. Relative to the discovery and rescue at Muscat, of a Slave Girl who had been kidnapped from her own Country and sold into Slavery.-’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, an extract of a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 28 August 1855. The enclosures are dated 22 November 1854-8 August 1855.The item relates to updates provided by Khojeh Hiskale [Khawājah Ḥizqīl bin Yūsuf], British Agent at Muscat, to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, on a recent case involving an enslaved Soomali [Somali, also rendered in text as Somaly and Somalee] girl who was brought to Muscat. In particular, attention is paid to the efforts of Syed Soweynee [Sayyid Thuwaynī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Governor of Muscat, to find and punish the man who sold her (Salim ben Mahomed ben Salim ul Mukhetee [Sālim bin Muḥammad bin Sālim al-Mukhṭī?], a native of Soor [Sur]).Kemball forwards the updates, along with his own comments, to the Government of Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: 'Bombay Political Department', Draft Number '1199 [18]55', 'Collection No.7', and 'Examiner's Office'. Originally, the Collection number was given as '4 of No. 86 of 1855.' but this has been crossed out.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 618, and terminates at f 624, 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.
92. 'Slave Trade'
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of political and secret letters from the Government of Bombay to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The enclosures to these letters are contained in the subsequent items. It is the first in a series of five items on the Persian Gulf.The item concerns the agreements made by the British Government with the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat on 2 October 1845, and with the rulers of Ras-el-Khyma and Shargah [Ra’s al-Khaymah and Sharjah], Debaye [Dubai], Ejman [Ajman], Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi], Amulgaveen [Umm al-Qaywayn], and Bahrein [Bahrain] in April and May 1847, for the suppression of the ‘slave trade’ [trade in enslaved people]. It includes:The seizure on 13 September 1847 of five vessels belonging to subjects of the Imaum of Muscat carrying fifty-nine enslaved peopleThe need for an amendment to provide the Government of Bombay with the power to adjudicate on the vessels which have been seized under the terms of the agreementsThe positions of Persia [Iran], the Ottoman Empire, and Koweit [Kuwait] in relation to the ‘slave trade’ in the Gulf.The item also contains:Marine letters containing an extract from ‘An Account of an Overland Journey from Leskaira [Al Ashkharah] to Meskat [Muscat] and the Green Mountains of Oman’, by C S D ColeTwo letters from the Commissioners for the Affairs of India [Board of Control] to the Court of Directors. Included with these are copies of letters from Edward John Stanley, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and William Rothery, an advisor to the Admiralty, concerning the preparation of bills, to be submitted to the British Parliament, authorising Vice Admiralty Courts to deal with vessels captured under the above agreements, and suggesting that such powers also be granted to a tribunal at Bombay [Mumbai].The item contains a table of contents (f 124), and the title page (f 123) contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘Draft N. 294/48’, ‘Collection Vol: 1’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 123 and terminates at f 148, 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.
93. ‘Slave Trade’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It is the seventh in a series of seven items on the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2014/89996, 89997, 89998, 89999, 90000, and 90001). The correspondents are: the government of India and Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robertson, Political Agent in the Persian Gulf; and the Native Agent at Muscat [Khwāji Rūbin bin Aṣlān].The item concerns previous letters sent in the series about the punishment for engaging in the slave trade, and mentions that the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd] issued a notification forbidding the public sale of enslaved people in early May 1843.The item includes a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 666, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4079, [Season 18]43’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 256 and terminates at f 261, 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.
94. ‘Slave Trade’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant Arnold Burrows Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf; Reuben Aslan, Native Agent at Muscat. It is the fifth in a series of five items concerning the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2033/92119, 92120, IOR/F/4/2034/92121, and 92122).The item concerns:Reuben Aslan’s rescue of an Indian woman, two Indian children, and a Somalee [Somali] child at Muscat, and their statementsThe uncooperative attitude of Syed Soowenee [Sayyid Thuwaini bin Sa’id Al Bu Sa’id, Acting Governor of Muscat] towards Reuben Aslan and his attempts to emancipate enslaved peopleThe rescue of an Indian boy at Judda [Jeddah]The rescue of a Hyderabadi girl and a discussion of ways to eliminate the trade in kidnapped children from that area to the GulfThe sudden imposition of an import levy on goods landed from Arab ships at MauritiusThe wreck of the Sir James Cockburnand the hospitality shown to the crew by Syed SooweneeThe legality of purchasing enslaved people for the purpose of emancipation.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 253, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4278, [Season 18]44’, ‘Vol: 5’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 88 and terminates at f 186, 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.
95. ‘Slave Trade’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, minutes, and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the East India Company Court of Directors. It is the first in a series of five items concerning the trade in enslaved people (the others are IOR/F/4/2033/92120, IOR/F/4/2034/92121, 92122, and 92123).The item concerns:The liabilities of British subjects at Muscat concerning enslaved peopleThe rescue of an Indian girl who was sold at Muscat by the sister of the Imam of Muscat [Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id]The importation of six enslaved people from Zanzibar into Mandavee [Mandvi]The prevalence of the trade in enslaved people in Portuguese settlements in IndiaThe punishment of those convicted of importing enslaved people into AdenThe rescue of Indian children kidnapped and sold at MuscatPossible penalties for boats carrying enslaved people in the Red Sea or Persian GulfThe agreement between the Imam of Muscat and the French at Bourbon [Réunion] about importing free labourers into Bourbon.The enclosures to the letters in this item are contained in the subsequent items.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 253, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4278, [Season 18]44’, ‘Vol: 1’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 860 and terminates at f 886, 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.
96. ‘Slave Trade. Vol: 5’
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- 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; the Government of India; Captain Samuel Hennell, the Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth 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/4/2066/94851).The item concerns:Methods of eliminating the trade in kidnapped children from IndiaA discussion of the speed of the approach to take towards eliminating the trade in enslaved people, particularly as far as it concerns the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat, Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan Al Bu Sa’id]The difficulty of translating the Act of Parliament (10 August 1842) giving the Governors and Officers of the East India Company the same powers as those Governors and Officers of Her Majesty’s ColoniesThe applicability of the Act to Sawarrut Warree [Sawantwadi]Punishments for those who imported enslaved people into the Gulf, and the accountability of shaikhs for the actions of their subjects.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 6 of No 27’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 435, and terminates at f 477, 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.