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Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [148r] (295/473)
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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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.
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I enclose copy of a letter yo # jr , # dated tne
7th March 1*39, from Pool, on **. ->*J«** of Tra<ling
on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
and Ite hinterland.
You haTe not receired copy of my letter of IHn
February but, as you will gather fro® Reel’s letter, it was
to the effect that from certain special enquiries which I
had made it appeared that Baraiai was a centre for the e*le
of slaves, that the lar^e majority of such slaves same from
the Batineh Coast, and that a considerable proportion of
these were individuals kidnapped from Persian Baluchistan.
3. I agree with 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.
that the Sultan cannot
escape responsibility in this laatter. $ill you therefore,
from me, take up the matter with him verbally, reminding
him of tne Muscat slavery Treaty of 1873 and of the sultan’s
Proclamation of that year (see Aitchleon Volume XI pae® 50®
and ’’Treaties and Undertakings in force between the British
government and the sultans of Tuscat and Oman 1840-1914*).
Please urge the Bultan on my behalf (you need not mention
His Majesty's Government at this stag*) t° take effective
measures to suppress the traffic through his territory. ?i 0 .v
that Chakar bln -iurad is dead - vide correspondence ending
witn ray press Letter Mo.o/8b, dated the 21st February
1939 - the ml tan* a task should be easier.
4* Please let me know the lultan’s reaction.
Major R.?. atts, I.A. *
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.
,
Muscat.
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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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- Title
- Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:39v, 40v:107v, 116r:229r, 232r:236r, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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