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1. IOR/R/15/1/199-234

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/199-234
Title:
File 5: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The majority of the Slave Trade subject files contain papers relating to the manumission of slaves or kidnapping incidents, heard by the Political Residency, and received from the Political Agencies in Bahrain (1924-43) and Muscat (1921-42), and the Native Agent at Sharjah (1921-40). The rest of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Kanarese, Marathi, and Persian
Date Range:
1892-1943
Extent:
36 files and volumes (9,000 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1828

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1828
Title:
File A/2 IV Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers related to individual manumission cases heard by the Political Agency at Muscat. The Agency at Muscat sent details of each case, including copies of the slaves' manumission statements, to the Bahrain Agency (eg. folios 1B, 2). In turn, in those cases w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1939-14 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1830

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1830
Title:
File A/2 II [3/A II] Slavery: cases of Qatar slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning Qatar slaves seeking manumission in Bahrain. In total there are five cases included in the file where the slave in question seeks manumission from the Political Agency in Bahrain. In one case, the manumission statement is made by the husband of a femal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1946-22 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1831

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1831
Title:
File A/2 V Slavery: cases reported by Political Officer, Qatar
Scope & Content:
The majority of the papers in the file are correspondence between the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Doha, and concern manumission applications from slaves. Most of the manumission applications are made by men who were captured and sold into slavery. There is one case of a born (domestic) sla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1950-29 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1832

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1832
Title:
File [3] Slavery: cases of Trucial Coast slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to nearly forty manumission applications heard at the Bahrain Political Agency. Of these applications, thirty-six involve new manumission applications, while another two are requests for replacement manumission certificates that have been...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1944-10 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (117 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1834

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1834
Title:
File A/2 IV (III) Slavey: cases of Trucial Coast slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to around forty manumission applications heard at the Bahrain Political Agency. All slaves were owned by residents of, or originated from, the towns of the Trucial Coast, primarily Dubai. The correspondence for most of the cases includes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1948-14 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (142 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1838

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1838
Title:
File A/3 III (3 B II) Slavery: cases of Muscat and Saudi Arabian slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to thirteen manumission applications heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Most of the slaves making the applications had travelled to Bahrain from Muscat and the al-Batinah region of Oman. In these cases, correspondence was exchanged...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1945-24 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (99 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1840

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1840
Title:
File A/2 (4 II) Slavery: cases reported by British Agency, Sharjah
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers related to 115 manumission applications, made by slaves to the Residency Agent at Sharjah between 1947 and 1950. The manumission applications have been grouped together into thirteen cases, meaning that batches of manumission statements (in English an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1947-6 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (260 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1849

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1849
Title:
File A/10 II Trading in slaves on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers, sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to thirty-three manumission applications and six applications for the restoration of enslaved relatives, heard by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). Each of the manumission c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1941-18 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (201 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1850

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1850
Title:
File A/10 Slavery. Slave cases of the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains thirty-eight manumission cases, dealing with over one-hundred manumission applications or requests from individuals for help in the retrieval of enslaved relatives. All of the cases (with the exception of one occurring in Bahrain, folio 439) were heard by the Political Officer ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1941-13 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (442 folios)