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1. IOR/L/PS/12/4088-4099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4088-4099
Title:
Political (External) Collection 34: Slavery and the Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The Political (External) Collection 34: Slavery and the Slave Trade sub-series concerns British anti-slave trade policy across the Red Sea, Arabian Peninsula, and Persian Gulf regions. It largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, specifically between the Foreign Office and Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1919-1948
Extent:
12 files (2358 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/4095

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4095
Title:
Coll 34/8 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Persian Gulf manumissions: Liability of manumitted Saudi subjects to be reduced to slaves again on return to Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between officials at the India Office and Foreign Office concerning what action might be taken if manumitted slaves from Saudi Arabia are detained upon their return to their country. The question is discussed following a report of such a case by Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1936-27 Aug 1936
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/4091

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4091
Title:
Coll 34/4 'Slavery: Persian Gulf: Reports on; Attitude of HMG'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to slavery and slave traffic in the Persian Gulf. Principal correspondents include officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Admiralty, Government of India (Foreign and Political Department), Colonial Office, and the Political Residency...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1919-22 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 file (355 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/4094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4094
Title:
Coll 34/7 'Slavery: Slave Traffic and Gun-running: Right of search by H. M. ships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to arms and slave traffic in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Principal correspondents include officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, comes from: the High C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Dec 1929-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (286 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4090

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4090
Title:
Coll 34/3 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
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, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Treasury, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, come...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Feb 1922-27 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (444 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/4098

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4098
Title:
Coll 34/11 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea, Arabia and Persian Gulf: Investigations by Sir George Maxwell'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minute papers and reports relating to investigations by the League of Nations into Slavery. The papers concern requests for information on slavery in the Persian Gulf region made by Sir George Maxwell, British Representative on the Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery, League...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1936-20 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4097

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4097
Title:
Coll 34/10 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Persian Gulf: Individual cases'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and reports concerning individual cases of slavery and slave trading in the Persian Gulf. The file covers two cases. The first is of a pearl diver and former slave seeking refuge aboard HMS Fowey, details of which are contained in a manuscript extract from the Report of Proceedin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1938-28 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4092

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4092
Title:
Coll 34/5 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia and Persian Gulf: Investigations by Sir George Maxwell'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to slavery and the slave trade in the Red Sea, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Persian Gulf. The focus of many of the papers is a memorandum (folios 307-337) on the subject written by George Maxwell, the British representative on the League o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1934-30 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4088
Title:
Coll 34/1 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Slave traffic in the Red Sea: Use of Air Patrols'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes relating to anti-slavery measures in the Red Sea. The correspondence is interdepartmental in nature, principally between officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, and the Foreign and Political Department of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1930-21 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4099
Title:
Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast. 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 legisla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)