: ‘I wish to remain in Bombay’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women in 19th century #IndiaNEWS On November 19, 1847, the Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay, Gregor Grant, sent depositions of

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‘I wish to remain in Bombay’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women in 19th century #IndiaNEWS
On November 19, 1847, the Senior Magistrate of Police at Bombay, Gregor Grant, sent depositions of 47 women and girls and 12 boys to the Government of Bombay. These individuals had been on board five baghlahs (sailing vessels) captured in the Persian Gulf in September 1847 by the East India Company’s Indian Navy and brought into Bombay Harbour. The five baghlahs (and six other vessels which were also seized), belonged to subjects of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and Zanzibar, Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulá¹­Ä?n Ä€l BÅ« Sa‘īd. The vessels were seized for carrying enslaved people, in contravention of the 1845 treaty between the United Kingdom and the Sultan, which prohibited the export of enslaved people from his East African dominions and the import of enslaved African people into his Omani territory (but still allowed the transport of enslaved people in the area between Lamu and Kilwa, including Zanzibar). The treaty was effective from January 1, 1847, and this was the first instance of the terms of the treaty being carried out by British authorities.The correspondence concerning the five baghlahs and the people on board can be found in the India Office Records file IOR/L/PS/5/452, which has been digitised and can be accessed...Read more

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