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'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION' [32r] (65/396)
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 01 slave Sftad (Father 1 u nau® unknown) from Hicljaz,/
atoout 3o yoaro recoracd at the Political Agenoy, n on
28th May 1950,
I kao "born in Maoca in thct houoo o! rai r mater /lait^on.
Vl/hfO I was about ten yoaru old un« day my master took mo vrith
him to Dachohab (tlie piaoe Tikt«ro they s«ill alaves) and cold
me to Jasim bin Thtjrxi of c.atar who/iiad b m therefor pilgram-
a^e, "but I do not know for how much money, ^aaim bin Thaiii
brought me to Wakra ar^d told me to Mubarak bin Ha oh id bin
Khammfiro who in a Kakhuda ircw I^airain and lives in Aakor.
Mabar^ik brought me from 'Takra to Anker from where he used to
take me to diving banks. I served him two years suut as a
Tabbab, throe years as a HacLhif , two years as a iiaib and
seven years as a OhoiL ^but^or^ full nine yeara I was his
Saib. He was taking all earnings but never paia a single
pie from it. After seven years when 1 lived with him he got b€
married with one slave girl Fatto^xu i got two daugaters from
her. 1 left her after seven years when 1 lived with heraa.but
after three years my master got ue married with one Iriamuuattid
slave woman Zaihab. I (iot ono boy and one dautihiior irom t^G
second one. As he was not giving me my share from my earnings
and enough cloths, so I loft him. It is about seven days that
I have oomo to Umual Hassan in tau house oi One aiashir al
Jatoar. Now I liavo cone t© agenoy to ask the favour of the
high Government to grant ue a manumission certificate co that
I may live at lilierty.
Before me.
Th. I. of Saad.
POLITICAL ACKUT, BiaOiiJ-lI.
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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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- 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