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not be ill-treated. The Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Colonel Ross,
thereupon ordered that runaway slaves should not in future be admit
ted to premises owned^ in Persia by the British Government, as the
result would be a great influx of slaves, leading* to political complica-
tions, into the British stations. These instructions were approved
by the Government of India, with the proviso that exception should
^ o! slaJ be made in cases where, owing to the slaves being placed in immi-
sfeerj ak» n en t danger or otherwise, considerations of humanity might dictate
an opposite course. In 1904, in consequence of a case, described above,
which occurred there, the Jashk order was expressly made applicable
to Hanjam.
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On the 1st August 1890 a decree was promulgated by the Sultan Proposal to
I of Zanzibar, putting an end to the traffic in domestic slaves in his restrict
u i dominions, setting various classes of domestic slaves immediately at domestic
| liberty, and making it easier for the remainder to obtain their freedom.
It was suggested that the adoption of a similar measure should be pressed tanate reject-
upon the Sultan of 'Oman ; but the local political officers, to whom this ed, 1891.
the m tu proposal was referred, criticised it adversely, pointing out that in the
id, as tte: peculiar circumstances of 'Oman any attempt to deal with domestic
only Mffl! slavery would be altogether ineffectual on account of the extent and
lie trafficiiit lawlessness of the country, while at the same time it might provoke a
'ersianGuI; |dangerous insurrection against the Sultan's authority. Eventually as it
jrsandiiib appeared that the Sultan, who declined to issue the decree suggested,
ongsocM; could not fairly be urged to do so unless he were also assured of British
r these iea» support in case of untoward results, the project was abandoned,
iefieialelect i "When the British Resident, at the end of 1899, visited Trucial Failure of an
states, w ^Oman to enquire into slave trade questions, he suggested that, as attempt to
hstain J® | was done at Masqat, manumission papers might in some circumstances be * ntl ' 0 ^ u ? e .
; but W granted to slaves taking refuge at the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ; but even the of^omestic
lesssteadiljfif Shaikh of Sharjah, who was the least obdurate, declined to entertain the s i a ves in Tm-
orms. i proposal, on fch^ ground thai his subjects would demand compensation cial 'Oman,
utaltyit M of him for every slave released. 1899.
asionallj ^ We have already seen, in examining the question of the local slave Proposal to
who are trade in Bahrain, that Captain Prideaux, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. there, restrict
laiffl,anM suggested in 1905 the application to the Shaikhdom of the policy which 'lomestic _
whom 2 H had been adopted in Zanzibar in 1891. The Government of India, re^
however, while they declared that it was their object a now, as always, ^ c ted, 1905.
■gidu ^ discourage slavery under any terms, and to move steadily in the
L consul f rec tion of its abolition," considered that there was, as matters stood,
110 real analogy between the situations existing in Zanzibar and in
tof ft Bahrain, and that a mistake would be committed if, by precipitate or
sentimental action, a slavery question were gratuitously raised in the
tlle ^ authorised the manumission of slaves in the future by the Political
rSiaI1 JIW ^rsian Gulf. As already mentioned, however, in an earlier paragraph,
jJ Agent, acting on his own responsibility with the consent—which might
n ot be withheld- of the Shaikh of the islands; and the instructions
j J Wei,e 80 worded as to permit the emancipation even of domestic slaves, in
fiJ c ases in which they had been badly used or in which no sufficient
den#, j guarantee was offered for their subsequent good treatment. ^ An attempt
1 # Was a ^ so ln ade, under the orders of G overnment, to obtain from the
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