Zanzibar: Slave Trade

IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 114-126

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The record is made up of 1 item (13 folios). It was created in 27 Mar 1861. 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. 3-6 to dispatch no. 7 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 March 1861. The enclosures are dated August 1860 to March 1861. Received 19 April 1861.

The enclosures include correspondence from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, HM Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar, describing recent slave trading activity at Zanzibar, and the role played by the French Consul there.

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1 item (13 folios)

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Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay, Vol 144

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/506

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English in Latin script

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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/5/506, ff 114-126
Former external reference(s): No. 7
Date(s): 27 Mar 1861 (CE, Gregorian)

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

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Reference: IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 114-126
Title: Zanzibar: Slave Trade
Pages: 114r:126v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
Usage terms: Open Government Licence