Zanzibar Affairs

IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 232-252

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The record is made up of 1 item (21 folios). It was created in 30 Apr 1860. 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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Enclosures Nos. 3-8 to Despatch No. 21 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 30 April 1860. The Enclosures are dated 11 February-30 April 1860. Received 20 June 1860.

The Enclosures include reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, concerning the liberation of a large number of male and female slaves illegally held by British Indian subjects at Zanzibar; copy of notice prohibiting the possession of slaves by British subjects in Zanzibar; resolution of the Honourable Board approving Rigby's actions; report by Rigby concerning acts of piracy committed by boats from the coast of Oman and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with the object of procuring slaves at Zanzibar; and resolution by the Honourable Board to ask the Secretary of State for India to assign a steam vessel to check piracy and slave dealing at Zanzibar.

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Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, Vol 142

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Original held at: 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.
Access conditions: Unrestricted
Archive reference: IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 232-252
Former external reference(s): No. 21
Date(s): 30 Apr 1860 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects: Slave trade
Places: Zanzibar
People & organisations: Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar

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Reference: IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 232-252
Title: Zanzibar Affairs
Pages: 232r:252v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
Usage terms: Open Government Licence