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abroad into the Sultanas territories was absolutely interdicted; vessels
engaged in carrying slaves were declared to be liable to confiscation by
British officers and courts ; the closure of all public markets for slaves
in his dominions was promised by the Sultan ; the Sultan undertook to
protect all liberated slaves to the utmost of his power; and Her Britannic
Majesty engaged that natives of Indian States under British
protection should be prohibited at once from acquiring fresh slaves and,
after a date to be fixed, from possessing any. But the most remarkable
provision of the Treaty was one to the effect that all persons thereafter
entering the Sultan's dominions and dependencies should be free. The
Sultan of Zanzibar also gave way, though not till after the departure of
Sir B. Frere from Zanzibar, and signed a Treaty for the complete aboli
tion of the Slave Trade on the 5th June 1873.
AgreemeDts with the Shaikhs of Trucial 'Oman, 1820-1907. *
The first t agreement of all in restraint of the slave trade in the General
Persian Gulf was one embodied in the General Treaty of i 820 which Treaty of
followed the British operations against the Qawasim in 1819-1820; 1820.
it was laid down by the 9th Article of that Treaty that the carrying off of
slaves from the coasts of Africa or elsewhere and the transporting of
them in vessels was plunder and piracy, and that the subjects of the
signatories should do nothing of such a nature. This article appears to
have been inserted in the Treaty at the instance of Captain J. P.
Thompson of His Majesty's 17th Light Dragoons, who was Interpreter
to Sir W. Grant Keir, the General commanding the expedition, and
afterwards distinguished himself as a slavery abolitionist; and it was
specially reported, at the time, that "no persuasion was necessary to
induce the acceptance of this stipulation'".
In 1837-38 it was decided, as already noted in the paragraph on Decision not
'Oman Sultanate agreements, not to put pressure on the Trueial to press for
Shaikhs or on the Saiyid of Masqat to abolish the slave trade in their ^ 0 f ^
dominions entirely. The reasons for this resolve were partly financial j ra (5 C) 1838.
and partly political.
In 1837 there were complaints of slave raids by Qawasim on the Agrasment
East African and Somali coasts : and a Qasimi agent, who happened to 0l: i8d! '-
be at Bushehr at the time, though he denied the more serious allegations
of the principal informant, a certain ^Abdullah-bin-'Iwa^, admitted that
the Qawasim had bought as slaves a number of prisoners of war taken
from one another in Somaliland by two hostile tribes. On the 17th of
April 1838, in consequence of these revelations, an Agreement was
* The agreements, etc., mentioned in this paragraph are given in Aitcbison's
Treaties.
t With one trifling exception 11812) mentioned in the paraajaph on agreements
^Ith Turkey.
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