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IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 31-82
- Record Id:
- 041-003780637
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100115443097.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100129648851.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 31-82
- Title:
- ‘Measures adopted for effecting the suppression of the Slave Trade’
- Scope & Content:
- Enclosure nos. 2-23 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 November 1841. The enclosures are dated 11 July-27 November 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the trade in enslaved persons in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, including:
- Reports that ships belonging to the Imam of Muscat and members of his family have been taking enslaved persons from the east coast of Africa to Bombay [Mumbai], Dewul [Diu] and Kurratchee [Karachi], and enslaved Hindu women from Bombay to Muscat and Zanzibar, with an insistence that the Imam is unaware of such use of his ships
- Methods used to disguise the trade in enslaved persons, including recording enslaved persons as crew members and their wives, disguising enslaved women as men in order to pass them off as crew members, and the use of bribes
- Reports that a ship under British colours carried enslaved persons from Mocha to Muscat
- Reports of enslaved persons being carried from Burbarah [Berbera] to Shargah [Sharjah].
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539246
041-003780637 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
IOR/L/PS/5/400 : ‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 38
IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 31-82 : ‘Measures adopted for effecting the suppression of the Slave Trade’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0038]/040-000539246[0003]/041-003780637
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (52 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100129648851.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1841
- End Date:
- 1841
- Date Range:
- 30 Nov 1841
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 97 of 1841
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)