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Coll 34/3 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud' [159v] (323/886)
The record is made up of 1 file (444 folios). It was created in 6 Feb 1922-27 Dec 1934. It was written in English and French. 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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hand of) Ibn Suliman, for all His Majesty’s purchases are made through him
I request your Excellency, therefore, to be good enough to hand him over to
Sheikh All Taha, Assistant Kaimakam of Jedda, so that he may be sent here
at an early date Instructions have been given to him (Ah Taha) accordingly.
FEISUL.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Sir A. Ryan to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mecca.
Your Royal Highness, Jedda, December 31, 1931.
(After compliments.)
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Royal Highness’s
note of the 26th December and to thank you for the measures taken to overcome
the objection at first raised by the local authorities at Jedda to the departure of
the Nigerian British subject, Harun.
I attach great importance to the case of the other man, Bakhit. I have
therefore personally examined him, and I enclose a statement showing his replies
to the questions put by me. The local authorities here evidently misunderstood
my difficulty in regarding this man as a Royal slave. It was not due to the mere
fact of his having passed through the hands of Sheikh Abdullah Suleiman, but
to the fact that he had apparently been for a prolonged period a member
of Sheikh Abdullah’s household.
It seems to me that there may be some mistake as to the identity of Bakhit,
similar to that which arose last year when certain slaves who had taken refuge
in this Legation were erroneously confused with others who had disappeared
from the household of His Majesty the King. Even if there be no such confusion
in this case, it is of such a nature that I should find it difficult to surrender the
man to the local authorities, as your Royal Highness requests me to do, without
the sanction of my Government. I am prepared to obtain the views of the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if your Royal Highness wishes me to do
so, but, in view of the delicacy of the matter, I would suggest that I should first
take an opportunity of discussing it with Sheikh Fuad Hamza, if, as I hope, he
is likely to visit Jedda in the near future.
With highest respects,
" ANDREW RYAN.
Piincirpal Questions put to Bakhit by Sir A. Ryan on December 29, with his
Answers to them, and Supplementary Questions put in the course of the
Examination.
Question. What is your name ?
Answer. Bakhit, son of Muhammad.
Q. Where were you born ?
, y 1 ' the Sudan I do not know in what place, but someone has told me
tiiat I was born m Baghirma.
religk)ii7 hat d ° y ° U kn ° W about y° ur father and mother and about their
MnWri T aS ^ugFt here so young that I know nothing about my parents.
about mv fmu aS . th i name °l the man who brought me here. I know nothing
r ' ei anc m y m °tber and I do not know what their religion was.
Q. How did you come to the Hejaz?
A. I came from Suakin to Jedda in a steamer.
a ‘ IT 11 ? brou g ht you to the Hejaz ?
Muhammad broug 1 ht me - 1 kno w nothing else about Muhammad.
Muhammad came from a place m the Sudan far from Khartum.
A I cauip 1 fif^ asoa d ^ y°u co me ? Was it at pilgrimage time?
' 1 me fifteen days before the pilgrimage time.
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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to slavery and slave traffic in the Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula. 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, Colonial Office, Treasury, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, comes from officials at the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Jeddah, 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. in Aden, 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. in Bushire, the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. , the Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), as well as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Kingdom of Hejaz, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France, the Royal Legation of Saudi Arabia in London, the High Commissioner for Palestine, the Chief British Representative in Trans-Jordan, Ibn Saud, the ruler of Najd, Hejaz (after 1925), and its Dependencies, and John Hobbis Harris, Organising Secretary to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society.
The file contains, often as enclosures, reports of proceedings by commanding officers of British vessels in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Parliamentary Notices of questions relating to the issue of slavery, extracts from Le Matin , a French daily newspaper, and a copy of the October 1934 issue of The Slave Market News .
Matters covered by the papers include:
- Reports on slave traffic in the Red Sea, including cases where suspected vessels have been seized
- Slave traffic within the Arabian Peninsula and along the Omani coast
- Cost of repatriating manumitted slaves
- French and Italian cooperation in the fight against slavery
- Protests to appropriate authorities in Arabia about the trade
- British subjects allegedly owning slaves
- Individual cases of slave seeking refuge with the British.
Also of note are the following memoranda:
- 'Memorandum on Slavery and the Slave Traffic in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and of Nejd and its Dependencies' by William L Bond, British Agent at Jeddah, 6 March 1930 (folios 215-221; this document is referred to often in the correspondence contained in IOR/L/PS/12/4088)
- 'Memorandum on Slavery in Saudi Arabia' by Sir Andrew Ryan, British Agent at Jeddah, 15 May 1934 (folios 31-44)
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- 1 file (444 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 446; 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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- Coll 34/3 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 14r:43r, 44v:52v, 54r:62r, 63r:74v, 76r:90v, 92r:109v, 111r:158v, 159v:197v, 197Ar, 197Av, 198r:199v, 199Ar, 199Av, 200r:208v, 213r:226v, 226Ar, 226Av, 227r:262v, 264r:287v, 289r:292v, 292Ar, 292Av, 293r:307v, 309r:327v, 338r:348v, 352r:352v, 356r:362v, 365r:372v, 375r:407v, 410r:410v, 414r:445v, back-i
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