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'File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications'

Title	'File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications'
Author	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
Publication Date:	18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
Publication Place	The British Government introduced various reforms into Bahrain's pearling industry throughout the 1920s, including the use of barwas . A barwa was a certificate given to a diver if it was decided by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, late -
Type	Document
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	343
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	IOR/R/15/2/1825
Record ID	vdc_100000000282.0x000230
Library Location	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.
Date	18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	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.

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'File A/2 I Slave Trade. Correspondence with Bushire regarding slaves and their manumission certificates and applications'

Author 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

Publication Date 18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939 (CE, Gregorian)

Publication Place The British Government introduced various reforms into Bahrain's pearling industry throughout the 1920s, including the use of barwas . A barwa was a certificate given to a diver if it was decided by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, late -

Type Document

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 343

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID IOR/R/15/2/1825

Record ID vdc_100000000282.0x000230

Library Location 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.

Date 18 Jan 1932-27 Sep 1939 (CE, Gregorian)

Notes 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.