'File 11/3 Vol. II Applications for manumission - REPATRIATION' [‎86r] (173/396)

Statement of aiavo llubaruk bin wadnar u^ea about 35 yuaru
recorded at the jPoiitical AG«ncy # Bahrain on 7th April lUol
I waa born at Zan^ioare ily parents r ]rero free people. I loot
my father whon X waa very young. ^Vhen I \*aa about yeara
of age, one .\bdulla bin all soory, a jl^ive broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. kidnapped
me from Zanzibar, in the absence of ny mother« ^rou^ht me to
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Dubai and sold to one Saiff bin ichatir when I served for three
years. And after this period !«y maator died and iiis wife sold
me again to one nohcuomed 3uaUir whon I served for the laot rmwi
aeven yearn during wnicli period I have beon vury cruelty treatiid
by him . He uaed to beat joe aeveroly -rith axicica .
I show the marks whioh I still bear in my body. I was narriud **
with a slave ^irl, out she did not givo oirtu to any cliild .
Finding it impossible to serve my master any longer owing to his
maltreatment, I nanaged to abscond from hin by a country craft
to Kuwait and thance I have roachad Lkuu^ain only four dayo .a^o .
1 have now cone to the /k^enoy with the ro^uoat
that the hi^h Govt; oe pleased to (prant we a manumission certi
ficate, so that I nay lead a freo life •
Before me
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Mubarak bin KVadnax*
for Political ^ent, BaJirain .