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'File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications' [156r] (317/686)
The record is made up of 1 file (343 folios). It was created in 18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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From The Commanding Officer,H.M.S."Ormonde' 1
at Henjam
Date 23rd December 33* No. i/r/itf//'
To $he Commanding Officer,H.M.S."Fowey”
Subject..Slave "Saad".
Submitted:-
The following report in accordance with signal 2235/18
from the Senior Naval Officer,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
is forwarded
concerning the slave Saad.
2«The slave first reported at a surveying camp installed
on the southern coast of Sir Beni Yas at about 1730 on
Sunday 17th December. He was sent ob board this ship and
asked protection and repatriation to Jeddah.
His story was that after a year’s employment by him,
one Shariff of Jeddah took him to Mecca and sold him
nearby to a Bedouin tribe about 15 to 20 years ago. Thence
he was handed from tribe to tribe until he became slave
of Abdulla bin Jallwi of El Hassa,near Bahrain,who about
three years ago made a present of him to Sheikh Shakhboot
of Abu Dhabi. The latter made him over to Rahid bin
Darwash of Abu Dhabi who sent him on 23i’d November last
as one of the crew of a
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
owned by Ahmed bin Khalof
and captained by Ahmed bin Ohmaid,both of Abu Dhabi.
3* The latter was not long in putting in an appearance at
the camp and was sent on board the following morning. He
confirmed the details of the slaves story. I handed him
a letter for him to produce on his return to Abu Dhabi
saying that the slave was now on board this ship; this
was partly to assist negotiations which had already been
commenced to contract with this
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
for the building of
a navigational cairn.
4. The slave was retained on board pending receipt of
instructions from the S.N.O.
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
who in the above
mentioned signal ordered his transfer to H.M.S."Fowey”.
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The file contains correspondence related to around sixty cases, involving slaves who have applied for manumission at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain. Copies of correspondence relating to many of these cases can also be found in the following Bushire Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. files: 'File 5/161 IV Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases' (IOR/R/15/1/205), 'File 5/161 V Manumission of slaves at Bahrain: individual cases' (IOR/R/15/1/206), and 'File 5/168 V Manumission of slaves on Arab Coast: individual cases' (IOR/R/15/1/209).
Many of the items in the file relate to the financial difficulties caused by Gulf's dwindling pearling industry, and the effects this had on the status of region's slaves. The file includes numerous applications made by pearl divers for barwa – documents freeing them of their contractual obligations to their nākhud ā (boat captain). Copies of barwas are included throughout the file. Other correspondence (folios 98-99) raises the issue of pearl divers with debts fleeing from the pearling towns on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. to Bahrain.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (343 folios)
- Arrangement
The correspondence and other papers included in the file are arranged in a rough chronological order, as they were received and filed by staff at the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. . This means that the papers are not arranged on a manumission case-by-case basis, the result being that correspondence related to specific cases is scattered through the file. Office notes at the end of the file (ff 284-339) mirror the chronological order of the correspondence.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the 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 The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 286-338; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The file contains five foliation anomalies, including f 1a, f 1b, f 1c and f 82a, and missing out f 14.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1825
- Title
- 'File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications'
- Pages
- 1r:1v, 1ar, 1bv:1cv, 2r:9v, 11r:52v, 54r:82v, 82ar:82av, 83r:87v, 89r:97v, 98v:125v, 127r:129v, 132r:147v, 149r:164v, 166r:228v, 300r:340v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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