Abstract: Printed correspondence relating to the prevention of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf, with particular reference to the persistence of the slave trade at Muscat under the French flag, and proposals for increasing facilities for vessels to sail under the British flag.The correspondence comprises brief notes written by Sir Arthur Godley, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India, dated 25 January 1899 (folio 1) and Sir Alexander Wilson (Chairman of the Mercantile Bank in India), dated 4 August 1899 (folio 2), and two more extensive sets of minutes, written by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick of the Council of India, dated 25 April 1899 and 10 October 1899 respectively (folios 1 and 2). Fitzpatrick’s minutes chiefly relate to the legal aspect of increasing facilities for passing under the British flag, in reference to the 1890 Brussels Conference Act.Typographic errors in the correspondence (Mr Murton for Mr Martin) have been corrected with red ink.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence begins on the first folio and ends on the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top-right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: The booklet also contains an original typed pagination sequence; p.4 is mistakenly printed p.3.
Abstract: This item contains graphic descriptions of slavery.The item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the African Institution, London; the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]; the Court of Directors of the East India Company.The item concerns the request of the African Institution that the East India Company use their influence over the Imaum of Muscat to persuade him to abolish the trade in enslaved people in Zanzebar [Zanzibar]. The previous efforts of the East India Company and the reply of the Imaum of Muscat are included. The African Institution appends a long description of Zanzebar, including its rulers, natural resources, and trade, especially the trade in enslaved people and the process of selling them.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 220, [Season] 1820/21’ and ‘Examiner’s Office April 1821’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 5 and terminates at f 25, 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.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 16 January 1874 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 10 February 1874, forwarding copies of papers, including letters from the Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Political Agent and Consul, Muscat, relating to the capture by HMS
Nimbleof two dhows on suspicion of their being engaged in the trade in enslaved persons.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 129, and terminates at f 133, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 129a, f 130a, and f 132a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 28 July 1874, forwarding, for information, a copy of a letter from the Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, regarding the reception accorded by the authorities at Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] to the ‘slaves’ [enslaved persons] captured off the Madagascar Coast by HMS
Daphne, in continuation of Political No. 104 of 16 July 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 276-281a).This item also includes an abstract of contents to Political No. 137 of 1874 (ff 265-268) (see also IOR/L/PS/6/119, ff 231-263a).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 264, and terminates at f 272, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 264a and f 271a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 11 August 184, forwarding for information a copy of a letter from the Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, reporting the steps taken by the Government of Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] to dispose of the ‘slaves’ [enslaved persons] who were captured off the Madagascar Coast by HMS
Daphne. This despatch is in continuation of Political No. 138 of 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/119, ff 264-272).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 280, and terminates at f 284, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 280a and f 282a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 2 October 1874, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, reporting the steps taken to secure the arrest and punishment of the assassins of Arthur Heale at Zanzibar. The despatch is in continuation of Political Despatch No. 144 of 11 August 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/120, ff 275-279).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 366, and terminates at f 370, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 366a and f 368a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 9 October 1874, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Acting Political Agent at Zanzibar, on the subject of ‘slave-dealing’ carried on by ‘natives’ of India at Zanzibar. The despatch is in continuation of Political Despatch No. 119 of 30 June 1874 (IOR/L/PS/6/118, ff 365-381).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 405, and terminates at f 409, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 405a and f 408a.
Abstract: This item consists of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 23 January. The despatch acknowledges receipt of the Secretary of State for India's Secret and Political Department Despatch No. 242 dated 5 December 1873, giving cover to an authenticated English translation of the recent Slave Trade Treaty with the Sultan of Zanzibar, and points out an apparent discrepancy in Article II of the translation as compared with the same Article of the proposed Treaty modified by Dr John Kirk, the Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar. This despatch does not include any enclosures.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 211, and terminates at f 211a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly: f 211a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 21 November and received via Brindisi on 15 December 1873, forwarding copies of two letters from the Political Agent and Consul General at Zanzibar. The Agent relates how the Governor of Lamoo [Lamu] captured a dhow with 217 enslaved persons on board and was instructed by the Sultan of Zanzibar to destroy the vessel and send the enslaved persons to Zanzibar to be located there as 'freed men'; and how a British ship-of-war (as yet unidentified) arriving at the port, despite being told the vessel has already been seized, demanded the surrender of the vessel, destroyed it and took away in it fifty of the enslaved persons. (The Agent intimates that the supply of labour to British colonies probably lies behind the taking away of the fifty persons).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 29, and terminates at f 31a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 29a, f 30a, and f 31a.
Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 20 February 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 16 March 1874, forwarding a letter from HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] to Earl Granville (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), on the subject of a proposed Treaty with Persia [Iran] for the suppression of the slave trade.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 346, and terminates at f 348, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 20 February 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 16 March 1874. With reference to the letter from the Resident at Aden, No. 15-50, dated 20 January 1874, regarding the destruction of certain dhows by HMS
Thetis,the despatch draws attention to paragraph 18 of the Assistant Resident's report of his visit to Hodeida [Al Hudaydah], in which it is stated that enslaved persons are conveyed from the port to Busreh [Basra] and the Persian Gulf in Turkish [Ottoman] men-of-war [ships].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 349, and terminates at f 350, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 27 February 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 23 March 1874. With reference to the letters from the Resident at Aden, noted within, forwarding a copy of a letter to the Bombay [Mumbai] Government regarding affairs at Maculla [Mukalla] and 'Bunder Broom' [Bandar Burum], and approving the Treaty entered into with the Jemadar of Shuhur [Ash Shihr] for the abolition of the slave trade at that port.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 392, and terminates at f 394, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.