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11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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)

14. IOR/R/15/2/1848

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1848
Title:
File A/10 Trading in slaves on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers relating to fourteen separate slave trading incidents reported on the Trucial Coast by the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi). The incidents include an owner's attempt to sell his servant's daughter into slavery, and the trafficking of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1935-12 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (459 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/1827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1827
Title:
File A/2 III Correspondence regarding slaves and their manumission certificates
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to slavery, received by or sent from the Political Agency in Bahrain. The majority of the papers in the file are related to manumission applications (over fifty in total), made by slaves in Bahrain or Muscat. In most instances, the slaves...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1937-3 Jun 1939
Extent:
1 file (356 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/1829

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1829
Title:
File [3A] Slavery: cases of Qatar slaves reported at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to twenty manumission applications made by slaves from Qatar, taken down by staff at the Political Agency in Bahrain. Many of the cases in the file feature only the slave's manumission statement, with little else in the way of correspondence. In the firs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1943-14 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/1836

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1836
Title:
File A/2 VI Correspondence regarding slaves applying for manumission at Muscat
Scope & Content:
The correspondence and other papers included in the file comprise two distinct parts. There is a significant chronological jump from the first part of the file relating to manumission cases, dated 1943, and the second part of the file, containing correspondence dated 1951. 1) Seven cases relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1943-5 Feb 1951
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

18. 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)

19. 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)

20. IOR/R/15/2/1855

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1855
Title:
File A/11 VI Slave trading on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to slaves' manumission applications heard at Sharjah. For each case, there is the initial correspondence, including the slave's manumission statement, sent from the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi), followed by return c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1940-9 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (253 folios)