"ملف أ/ ٢ I تجارة الرقيق. مراسلات مع بوشهر بخصوص الرقيق وشهادات إعتاقهم وطلباتهم" [و‎‎١‎٦‎١] (٦٨٦/٣٢٧)

Statement of slave Saud bin Saeed aged about Jc5 years
recorded an the Politica.i Agency Bahrain.
I was born in Jedda(Hedjaz)and my parents were free
people. When 1 was very young,my father died. After his
death, one of the Sharif s of Mecca by name liuhsin took me on
as a servant. After serving him for one month, he took me
to Vraai Fatimah where his household were then residing ana
sold me to certain bedouins of Harb Tribe. They took me to
Gidaid, a village between iiadinah and Mecca and sold me to
one Sulaiman bin Ahmad, a bedouin in whose service I spent
two years. I was there when Ibn Sau’d declared war against
Hedjaz and captured Gidaid. Although 1 was not fighting
against the Sau’di army,l was taken as a prisoner of war and
despatched to IJejd. I was prsented to one Najdi by name
Suwad bin Faycz in whose service 1 remained for several years
/'•l last,being unable to remain further in his service owing
to the illtreatment which 1 used to receive from him,I
implored him to sell me to another master which he willingly
did. The other master to whom I was sold is a learned man
of Naju wnose name i do not remember now gifted me soon
after to bau'd bin Abdul Aziz al Paisai al bau f d whom 1
served for one year. He then gifted me to Ibn Jeluwi,Amir
of Hasa. whilst I was in the service of Ibn Jeluwi at Hasa,
it happened that one mabruk slave of one Kashid bin Carwash
of Abu Dhabi absconded from his master and made off for
Lingah where he obtained a manumission certificate,thence
to Bahrain and lastly to Hasa. On his arrival at Hasa, he
was enslaved by ibn Jeluwi. This slave’s master, on hearing
the news, cent a ma.n to Hasa in ordef to endevour to take
back the slave. Ibn Jeluwi,desiring to retain the slave
in question with him,he made me over to Hasnid bin qarwash
in place of his original slave and so 1 was despatched to
Abu Dhabi/-