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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [‎69r] (137/473)

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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Your Lordship, in iny despatch Mo, 95 (1225/1439/19) dated
young
June 3rd. the rescue of a/Sudanese girl who had been sold
into slavery in Mecca and kept in slavery for three years.
There was little doubt that she had been sold by a Sudanese
woman who brought her on the pilgrimage, and the authorities
seized upon this to disclaim responsibility. Not only did
they not express any regret, but they insistently demanded
the recovery of the thirty gold pounds which, they argued,
had been extracted from the purchaser under false pretences.
Slavery is a question on which the Saudi authorities are very
sensitive, perhaps because of the conflict between a practice
authorioed by the precept and the example of their Prophet
and the general opinion of the whole Christian world and of
most of the Moslem world also. They would therefore be
inclined to say, as to the traffic in Baluchis, that the
authorities in the territories from which these people are
alleged to come, ought to suppress the traffic at its source,
that the British warships in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. should be more
efficient in preventing the running of the slaves across to
the Arab bide of the Gull, and that but for the support and
participation of the Arab states for which His Majesty’s
Government are responsible, the traffic could not be carried
on at all. And if the report which I have quoted at the end
of paragraph 6 is correct, Ibn Saud might be able to claim
that he sets free immediately any slave of whose wrongful
enslavement he becomes aware.
10. There is some slight hope that the traffic in
slaves from Persian Baluchistan has been checked. While this
despatch was being written I received a copy of the annual
report on Iran which relates in paragraphs 206 ff. the
conclusion of a successful campaign in November 1938 against
v / malcontents

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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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