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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [67r] (133/473)
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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is also infringed, according to Dr. Dame, Dy the existence
in Riyadh of slave concubines described as Yemenis and
obviously of Arab blood. It seems probable that the diminu
tion or cessation in the supply of slaves from Abyssina that
has resulted from the Italian conquest has created so strong
a demand that no principles are allowed to stand in the way.
/hen the rulers set a bad example there is little hope of
improvement. The Xing has had several children by slave
women. His favourite consort, Umm Mansur, who died in 1938,
was one of those unfortunate victims of the Turkish atroci
ties against the Armenian race during the great war. Nasir,
an ill-conditioned youth who caused the death of two women
last year by giving them methylated spirit to drink during
a debauch and who has now been given the post of Governor cf
the town of Riyadh because ^1 understand) it is not important
enough for such of his brothers as Muhammad or Khalid, is
the son of a slave*-woman of low origin, as to the Amir Saud,
n is palace, according to Dr. and Mrs. Dame, is swarming with
black children he has had by slave women.
-here is some evidence that slaves have even been
supplied from Syria. There was a report (l think from the
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.
at Kuwait, though I cannot trace it now)
that Shaikh Yusuf Yasin, on one of his journeys through
Kuwait, had a slave girl with him, and I gathered that the
Dames had some suspicion of Shaikh Yusuf on this score. It
would of course be possible for Shaikh Yusuf to import women
ior the Saudi royal family without transgressing any law,
human or divine, that he recognises. He has only to marry
a girl in Syria and to divorce her on arrival in Riyadh;
there she could easily be constrained to marry one of the
princes, who in a few weeks or even days would divorce her
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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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