Letter no.607 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, relating to the slave trade between East Africa and the Gulf. Enclosed with the letter is an extract of paragraph 19 of despatch no.30 of 1855 (folio 186), from the Court of Directors, dated 19 December 1855, stating that Captain Kemball [the previous Persian Gul...
Letter no.604 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter is a covering letter, relating to the means available to British officials for the suppression of the slave trade between East Africa and the Gulf. Enclosed with the letter are extracts of paragraphs 10 and 11 from despatch no.30 of 1855, from the Court of Directors, dated 19 December...
Letter no.145 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter relates to the forthcoming season’s slave trade between East Africa and the Gulf. Jones writes that most vessels returning with slaves land their cargo at Soor [Ṣūr] or points further south, and then march slaves overland to the Arab coast, in order to avoid British patrols. Jones rec...
Letter no.168 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to an additional engagement to the existing slave trade treaty signed by the British Government and various Arab coast rulers, obliging the rulers to do everything in their power to seize and deliver up to the British any slaves found to have been imported in...
Letter no.3976 of 1856 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter and its enclosures are a response to Jones’s previous letter announcing an additional engagement signed with the Shaikhs of the Arab coast for the suppression of the slave trade, and Jones’s own recommendations for better prosecution of the slave trade in the Gulf. Anderson requests c...
Letter no.257 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter is part of Jones’s continuing discussion with the Government in Bombay about measures to suppress the maritime slave trade from Zanzibar to the Gulf. The letter contains discussion what Jones calls the lack of ‘moral responsibility’ of traders carrying slaves from Zanzibar; the payment...
Letter no.1175 of 1857 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter and its enclosure relates to an incident in 1856 in which an African slave detained in Ras-ool-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] was released from slavery and sent to the Presidency in order to return to his own country. The enclosure is an extract of paragraph 8 of 1857 from despatch no.8 of 18...
Letter no.240 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to relations between the Shaikh of Ras-el-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah], Sultan bin Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr], and the British, over the importation of slaves into the Arabian peninsula. Jones writes that Shaikh Sultan has complained about his treatment by the Britis...
Letter no.1177 of 1857 from Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf
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The letter and its enclosure relate to a complaint made by Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur [Sultan bin Saqr], the ruler of Ra’s al-Khaymah, of his unfair treatment at the hands of British officials in relation to prosecution for the slave trade in the region. Enclosed with the letter is an extract of pa...
Letter no.238 of 1856 from Commander Felix Jones, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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The letter and its enclosures relate to the results of the season’s efforts to suppress the slave trade on the Persian and Arab coasts. Topics covered include: willingness of some of the Arab Shaikhs to follow the new slave trade suppression treaty; resistance to measures on the Persian coast, a...
