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Letter no.257 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [‎209r] (3/4)

The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 28 Aug 1856. 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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The letter is part of Jones’s continuing discussion with the Government in Bombay about measures to suppress the maritime slave trade from Zanzibar to the Gulf. The letter contains discussion what Jones calls the lack of ‘moral responsibility’ of traders carrying slaves from Zanzibar; the payment of bounties to parties recovering slaves; a contradiction within the treaty of 2 October 1845 with the Imam of Muscat, which Jones argues is being exploited to allow slaves to the imported into the Arabian Peninsula; the introduction of slave trade patrols around Zanzibar to circumvent the exploitation of terms of the Muscat treaty.

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Letter no.257 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay [‎209r] (3/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/157, ff 208-209, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023736813.0x00002b> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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