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IOR/L/PS/12/4092
- Record Id:
- 040-000559178
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000559173
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x00029c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075136891.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- 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 of Nations Committee of Experts on Slavery. The majority of the correspondence constitutes a discussion of this document, the state of slavery in the region more generally, and the compilation of a brief that may be given to Maxwell for submission to the Committee of Experts.
Principal correspondent include officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, as well as Maxwell himself. In addition, reports and opinions are submitted by officials at the Residency in Aden, the British Legation in Jeddah, and the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait.
The volume also contains, often as enclosures, extracts from intelligence reports, treaties in effect in the region, and a copy of the quarterly newspaper, The Slave Market News, July 1935 (folio 145).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000559173
040-000559178 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/4088-4099 : Political (External) Collection 34: Slavery and the Slave Trade
IOR/L/PS/12/4092 : Coll 34/5 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia and Persian Gulf: Investigations by Sir George Maxwell' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0035]/037-000559173[0005]/040-000559178
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (338 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x00029c
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1934
- End Date:
- 1936
- Date Range:
- 22 Dec 1934-30 Apr 1936
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 340; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- Coll 34/5
- Arrangement:
- The file is arranged in chronological order from the back to the front.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)