Subject: Slave trade - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/2657/175372
Title:: ‘Muscat. Traffic in Slaves by Natives of India. Further proceedings reported.’
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 18 March 1856. The enclosures are dated 5 September 1855-17 November 1855. It is th...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Sep 1855-18 Mar 1856
Extent:: 1 item (7 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/2660/176087
Title:: ‘Persian Gulf. Correspondence between the Resident and the Chief of Russul Khyma, respecting slave trade.’
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 3 October 1856. The enclosures are dated 24 July-October 1856. It is the fifth in a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Jul 1856-3 Oct 1856
Extent:: 1 item (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/2660/176088
Title:: ‘Persian Gulf. Slave Trade. Relative to the Native of Soor who kidnapped a Somalee girl and sold her at Musckat. Further proceedings reported.’
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 3 October 1856. The enclosures are dated 19 December 1855-September 1856. It is the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Dec 1855-Sep 1856
Extent:: 1 item (9 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/2660/176089
Title:: ‘Slave Trade. Relative to the increase of Trade with the Coast of Africa.’
Scope & Content:: This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 3 October 1856. The enclosures are dated 27 March 1856-17 September 1856. It is the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Sep 1853-17 Sep 1856
Extent:: 1 item (11 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/C/586
Title:: Survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company's Cruiser Ternate
Scope & Content:: A survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company cruisers the Ternate and the Sylph (1810-1811). Folios 23-142 contain a report of proceedings on board the Ternate, 1 January-25 September 1811. The report contains: The daily entri...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1810-1811
Extent:: 1 volume (211 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 1058-1061
Title:: The Slave Trade at Zanzibar
Scope & Content:: Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 202 of 1869, dated 24 June 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 28 May 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Governmen...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Jun 1869
Extent:: 1 item (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 1062-1065
Title:: The Destruction of Persian Craft Near Mogoo by HM Vessel Dryad
Scope & Content:: Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 203 of 1869, dated 24 June 1869, with an enclosure numbered 2, dated 29 May 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Governmen...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Jun 1869
Extent:: 1 item (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/266, ff 452-455
Title:: Steps Taken by the Turkish Authorities at Bagdad for the Suppression of the Slave Trade at Fao
Scope & Content:: Political Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 64 of 1871, dated 5 April 1871, containing an enclosure dated 16 February 1871. The enclosure consists of a copy of a letter from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Apr 1871
Extent:: 1 item (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 361-365
Title:: Zanzibar Affairs: The Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa
Scope & Content:: This item comprises copies of a political despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 99 of 1872, dated 10 May 1872. The enclosures date from 25 August 1871 to 6 April 1872 and concern the capture and destruction by HMS Petere...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1872
Extent:: 1 item (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:: ‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:: Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:: 19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:: 1 volume (983 folios)

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