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'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression' [50r] (39/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (34 folios). It was created in 29 Oct 1869. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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His Lordship desires me to observe that after having once manumitted all the slaves
held by protected Indian subjects at Zanzibar, as was done a few years since by Colonel
Rigby, to tolerate now the holding of Slaves by any Indian subjects, protected or othewise,
would be a material concession on our part towards slavery, likely to encourage the Slave
Trade, and calculated to place us in a false position towards the Sultan of Zanzibar, whom
we have been urging for some time past to adopt stringent measures for putting a stop to
the Slave Traffic in his dominions.
Lord Clarendon would suggest, therefore, unless there are any Indian interests
involved which would prevent the adoption of such a course whether a notice might not
be issued prohibiting entirely the holding of domestic slaves by Indian subjects, or by
the subjects of any Indian State under British protection, allowing them, however, should
it be thought advisable to do so, a reasonable period for getting rid of the slaves that may
be in their possession.
I am further directed to state that, if the Duke of Argyll has the means of furnishing
it, Lord Clarendon would request to be supplied with a copy of such part of the Indian
Penal Code as prohibits the holding or trafficking in slaves by Indian subjects.
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. J. OTWAY.
No. 46.
Mr. Otway to Mr. Merivale,
gi r> Foreign Office, April 10, 1869.
WITH reference to your letter of the 6th of January last, and to former corre
spondence upon the question of relieving the Sultan of Zanzibar from the payment of the
subsidy to Muscat, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will move
the Duke of Argyll to inform his Lordship whether any answer has been received to the
despatch on this subject, which was addressed by his Grace on the 6th of January to the
Governor-General of India.
I am to state that Lord Clarendon is very anxious that an early decision should be
come to in this matter, as upon it will depend the measures necessary for the suppression
of the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa.
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. J. OTWAY.
.
No. 47.
Mr. Grant Duff to Mr. Otway.—{Received April 12.)
Dear Otway,
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
, April 10, 1859.
I HAVE vainly been hunting you for two days in the House of Commons, and now
send the Memorandum which I had meant to give you.
Believe me, &c.
(Signed) M. GRANT DUFF.
Inclosure in No. 47.
Memorandum.
NO despatch has been received from India in reply to ours of the 6th January, 1869,
regarding the payment of the Muscat subsidy by the Sultan of Zanzibar ; but a telegram
was received on the 18th March, stating that one was on its way.
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This file contains printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's attempts to prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa, relations between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's relations with Muscat. The correspondence dates from September 1866-July 1869.
The file contains translated copies of correspondence between the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Saeed and the Viceroy of India, John Laird Mair Lawrence as well as translated correspondence between an Envoy of the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Stanley [Edward Henry Stanley].
On folio 42r, the file contains a translation of a letter from Queen Victoria to the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Saeed. The letter confirms the friendly relations between the two and informs the Sultan that a sword has been specially commissioned for him as a gift.
The file also contains translated correspondence between the Sultan of Johanna [Anjouan Island, now part of the Comoros Islands] and Henry Adrian Churchill, Britain's Agent in Zanzibar.
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- 1 volume (34 folios)
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The file is arranged in rough chronological order, with the earliest correspondence at the beginning of the file and the latest at the end of the file.
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Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.
Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 31, and terminates at f 66, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression'
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- 31r:54r, 55r:66v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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