In 1920, 1 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 3, Case ID LA-E-3058 occurred via the British Consular Court, Muscat
| RegID | LA-E-3058 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Unspecified |
| Year | 1920 |
| Government Department | Consular Courts |
| Court | British Consular Court, Muscat |
| Trial Outcome | Asylum |
| Enslaved Total | 1 |
| Liberated Africans Total | 1 |
| Registered Total | 0 |
| Notes | The number of slaves manumitted during the year was as follows: Bundar Abbas (10 slaves), Bahrain (4), Shargah (4), Muscat (2), and Lingah (1 slave). Total is 14. It is not immediately clear if any of these people were African, although inputted totals are meant to represent the possibility. There are annual returns for the manumissions of enslaved people, both from Africa and Asia. In 1924, "Ten slaves, mostly negroes, were manumitted from the [Trucial] Coast during the year." Alaine Hutson has compiled a spread sheet of at least 120 enslaved people manumitted at the Jeddah Consulate between 1926-1938. Many of these liberated Africans originated via the trans-Saharan slave trade from French Equatorial Africa, Abyssinia, and Northern Nigeria. The enslaved fled slavery in a variety of locations, such as Jeddah, Mecca, Al Qunfudhah, Wadi Fatma, Lith, Rabegh, Hasa, Qadima, Dahban, Dabbar, TualNejd, Bahra, Medina, El Gedeyd, Riyadh, Kheleis, Taif, Sii'diya, Al Burza, Bureyda, Jizan, Umm al Jirm, Es-Sa'adiya, Asfan, El Ghuruf, Rhula, Mastora, among other places. |
| Sources | British Library, India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/713, in Qatar Digital Library, "Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Muscat Political Agency," 1920, f. 13, 17, 40, 58, and 194; Alaine S. Hutson, "Enslavement and Manumission in Saudi Arabia, 1926-38," Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 11, no. 1 (2002): 49-70; Alaine S. Hutson, dir., REMAP Database: Runaways Enslaved and Manumitted on the Arabian Peninsula, http://www.remapdatabase.org/ (accessed 2022). |
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| X Capture | |
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| Y Capture | |
| Ship Status | Unknown |
| Date of departure from a place or port in Africa generally following the purchase of enslaved people. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | |
| Region of departure from Africa. Required entry. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. | East Africa (unspecified) |
| Place or port of departure from Africa, if known. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN | |
| Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | |
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| Date of arrival to the place where the trial, purchase, or asylum occurred, resulting in "liberation" and indenture. Includes YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | |
| Region of arrival around the world. Required field. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. Other regions outside of Africa include, Western Europe, East Coast of North America, etc. | Middle East |
| Place or port of arrival around the world. Required field. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN | Muscat |