Coll 34/3 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud' [‎354r] (702/886)

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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)

Arrangement

The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.

Physical characteristics

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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English and French in Latin script

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