Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast' [‎212r] (423/473)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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Dated , the 4th March 1938 xM> •
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From • Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ,
Bushire, at Bahrain*
To
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*
Subject t Slave Trading
Reference the information I received at Dibai on my recent
tour from Mr.Lennitte of Petroleum Concessions Limited, which we
have discussed, with regard to Slave Trading at Abu Dhabi. Mr.
Lermitte, who recently stayed for some time in Abu Dhabi in
connection with his negotiations with the Shaikh, informed me in
the course of conversation that a certain amount of slave trading
went on there. He quoted one case in which a slave, who was going
/% to be sold took refuge in his house. As he, Mr.Lermitte, was in
no position to protect him he advised him through his servants to
return to his master. Mr^ermitte was unable to give the name
of the slave. He also quoted a case he had heard oft a woman
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whose husband was being sold to an individual in $atar.
2. Mr.Lermitte knows Arabia well, and has had considerable
experience of Arabs, and I am quite prepared to accept his state-
-ments that slave trading to some extent goes on in Abu Dhabi -
the more so as it is situated a considerable distance from other
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