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'Précis on slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, 1873-1905 (With a Retrospect into previous history from 1852) By J A Saldanha BA, LL B' [‎1] (9/126)

The record is made up of 1 volume (63 folios). It was created in 23 Jun 1906. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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CHAPTER I.
Measures for the suppression of slavery in the Indian Ocean and
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Statement of all treaties, statutes, etc., on the
subject with their contents up to the year 1873.
One of the cardinal principles of British Administration of their world-wide
Empire on sea and land has always been the abolition of slavery. A clear history
of the genesis and growth of this policy will be found in the article on Slavery
in the Encyclopedia Bntannica. As regards the trade in negro-slaves between
the dominion of Zanzibar, on the East Coast of Africa, and the Arabian and
Persian shores, it would be worth while to read Edward Hutchinson's little work
"The Slave Trade of East Africa" (1874), which brings up the history of
the measures taken by Great Britain in the suppression of this slave trade to
the beginning of the year 1874. Of the recent publications " Zanzibar in Con
temporary Times" by Robert Nunez Lyne treats the subject exhaustively and
in a very interesting manner in Chapters IV, VI, VlII, IX, X, XIII and XV.
2. Our official correspondence up to the year 1876 is summarised or abstract
ed in the following publication
Bombay Selections^ 1856, No. XXIV.—Paper on Slave Trade by Lieutenant
A. B. Kemball with engagements up to the year 1851, pages 635 et seq.
Precis of Zanzibar Affairs l 1856-J2) by Captain Henderson, Chapter VI,
on Slave Trade.
2. -A. There are in the Bombay Records also two interesting reports on Slave
Vol. 107 of 1 860. * Trade from January i, 1853^0 June 30,
Vol. 88 of 1861. 1858, and from July 1, 1858, to June 30,
'859. b y Captain Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , which are
printed Appendix to this Precis. The correspondence on the Slave Trade carried
on under the French flag istreated in the Ma skat Precis, 1892—1905.
Precis of Zanzibar Affairs, 1872-78> by Lieutenant Ramsay, pages 11—34)
about Sir Bartle Frere's mission.
3. These precis and abstracts bring up the history to the close of the
year 1873. We subjoin below a complete statement of the Farmans
or decrees passed and treaties and engagements concluded by the Sultans of
Maskat and Zanzibar, the Maritime Arab Chiefs in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Porte,
the Shah of Persia and the Rao of Kutch, and the British Legislative Enact
ments passed and orders in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and proclamations issued, for the purpose
of the more effectual suppression of the slave trade up to that year.
They indicate the several stages of the progress of the measures taken by
the British for attaining their noble object, culminating with the treaties con»
eluded with the Sultans of Maskat and Zanzibar and the assurances obtained
from the Maritime Arab Chiefs in 1873 and the Slave Trade Act of 1873,
which have served since then as the main basis of the anti-slave trade operations
and do still serve that purpose, being given only wider international scope by
the Brussels Slave Trade Conference Act of 1890 :—
Treaties, Farmans, enact
ments, etc.
Subject matter.
Where printed.
Decree of the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Baghdad, 18 <2.
General Treaty with
the Arab Tribes of
the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
1820,
Directing restoration of Natives of India
brought to Basrah as slaves.
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Declaring that carrying of persons from
Africa or elsewhere and transporting
them in vessels to be piracy (Article 9).
Aitchison's Treaties,,*
Volume XI, page 12.
Aitchison's Treaties,
Volume X, page
127.
• The edition rtferied to of Aitci-ison's Treaties is that of 1892.
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This volume is a summary of events, treaties and correspondence about the suppression of slavery and the slave trade in the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , curated by Jerome Anthony Saldanha, and printed in Simla in June 1906.

The volume is marked as secret and divided into chapters:

  • Measures for the suppression of slavery and slave trade in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , up to 1873 (ff 5-7);
  • Measures against traffic in slaves by Natives of India (ff 8-16);General measures taken for the suppression of Slave Trade from 1874 to 1905 (ff 16v-22);
  • Anti-Slave Trade Operations (ff 22v-30);
  • Runaway slaves at Gwadur (ff 31-34);
  • Trade in Baluchi slaves from Mekran to the Arab coast (ff 34-35);
  • Reception of fugitive slaves on board Her Majesty's ships of war and other British vessels (ff 35v-38);
  • Grant of protection to fugitive slaves on the Coast (ff 39-40);
  • Some questions of practice of courts (ff 41-45);
  • Miscellaneous questions and facts (ff 45v-48.

In Appendix, Reports on Slave Trade in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1852-1859 (folios 59-61).

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1 volume (63 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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