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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [19r] (37/473)
The record is made up of 1 file (235 folios). It was created in 25 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1945. 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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5XT. 2125A5
APFEKDIX II
Statement of Mohamed bin Ali recorded on Tuesday,
the l6th ijarch, 1943*
Mohamed bin Ali, aged 15-16, states
I belong to Makran. About ten years ago I was with ten other
children, nine boys and a girl, bathing on the shore some distance
from the town. It was at the end of the simmer. There was a
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
at anchor near where we were bathing. Arabs came from the
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
in a small boat and caught us. They took us to the
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
and tied
us up. It was in the afternoon. The Arabs in the boat took us to
Qatar; we were about a month in the boat. We arrived at Dohah
iprri for two days we were left in the boat. Then we were taken to
the house of Shaikh Abdullah bin Jasim, who bough! all of us. I
heard later that I had been bought for Rs.3C0/-. I think that
Rs.300/- to 1,000/- was paid for the others as some of the boys
were older, about the age I am now. Abdulla bin Jasim gave me to
his brother Thani and I was his slave until I escaped from him
ten days ago. I was sent out to the desert in the south of Qatar
and I did not see the others again; I heard that some had been
given away and sent to Nejd.
I became a camel boy in the house of Shaikh Thani, brother of
Abdulla bin Jasim. I was badly treated and beaten and I asked to
be sold to someone else but they would not sell me. I was often
hungry.
About ten days ago I ran away from Shaikh Thani*s place, "(On
Maslan", and came to Dohah. I heard that the Shaikh was deporting
all the foreign poor people to Bahrain, Kuwait and elsewhere. I
joined the people who were being sent away. Several boats were
sent off with paupers and the fares and food were provided by
Shaikh Abdulla. I went on board the boat as it was leaving and
nobody prevented me. I arrived at Bahrain, and we were caught by
the Police^
I did not see the other boys from Llakran because I was a long
way off in the desert. The girl is still in the house of Abdulla
bin Jasim and her brother is there too; both are younger than me.
/Shaikh
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Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . The papers consist of intelligence reports, parliamentary notices, memoranda, letters, and telegrams. Matters covered by the file include:
- Concern over a lack of application of anti-slavery legislation in Saudi Arabia, especially in the east
- British threats of bombardment and withdrawal of good offices given to the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi
- Slave traffic coming from the Mekran [Makran] Coast
- A suspected slave market at Buraimi.
Principal correspondents include officials at the 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. , Foreign Office, Admiralty, and Political 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. . Additional correspondence, usually included as enclosures, comes from: Amir Feisal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saudi Arabia; the 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. Agent, Sharjah; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies; Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain; British Vice Consulate, Zahidan, East Iran; British Consulate, Kerman; and Sultan Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] of Muscat.
Folio 40 is an article on the slave trade in the Gulf taken from The Times , 18 July 1942.
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- 1 file (235 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 237; 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.
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- front, front-i, 2r:39v, 40v:107v, 116r:229r, 232r:236r, back-i, back
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