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'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION' [30r] (61/396)
The record is made up of 1 file (195 folios). It was created in 6 Mar 1930-11 Nov 1931. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Statement ox alave Safid (Pat her f a nexio unknown) from Hidjas,^/
about ob yoari) recorded the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrain on
28th May i9o0 #
^ien X was eibout ten yoara old unw day my master took me with
age, but I do not know I'or how much money, Jabim bin Thani
brought me to Wakra and told me to Mubarak bin Rachid bin
Khammarc who is a Nakhuda I'rum Beiirain and lives in Aokor,
Mabarak brought me from iTakra to Askor from where he used to
take me to diving banks, I scrv&d him two years kjik as a
Tabbab, three years as a Raclhif,vtwo years as a Saib and
seven vears as a Ghotts for full nine yeara I was his
4,
Saib 0 He was taking all my earnings but never paid a single
pie from it. After seven y^urs when I lived with him he got ^
married with one slave girl Fattoau. <L got two daughttrs from
her. I left hor after sevon years when 1 lived with h«na,but
after three yeiirs my master got me maj'ried with one kanumated
slave woman Zaihab, I got ono boy and one daughter from the
second one. As he was not giving no my ij:iare from my earnings
and enough cloths, so I left him. It ic about seven days that
I have come to Umual Hassan in the house of tne Bashir a1
Jamjar. Now I have come to ngoncy to ask the favour of the
high Government to grant mo a manumission certificate so that
I may live at liberty.
I was born in Macca in the house of my Skater Zaitbon.
POLITICAL AGEllT, BAKRalll,
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The file mostly contains applications for manumission certificates granted by the British Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file also contains correspondence about the inheritance of a deceased manumitted slave (folios 2-7) in which both the former master who freed him, and his widow claim his inheritance, and correspondence on the rescue of a young Persian slave by Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Emir of Qatar (folios 37-43).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (195 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the file are arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation is in pencil on the top right corner, starting and ending on the covers. The numbering starts with 1, 1a, and then carries on until 196, which is the last number given on the back cover.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/2/1367
- Title
- 'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 3r:32v, 34r:40v, 43r:79v, 81r:86v, 89r:115v, 115av, 116r:116v, 117v:119v, 121r:155v, 157r:179v, 181r:195v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence