FO 1016/260
Slavery in Persian Gulf States, 1953
This file contains correspondence relating to:
HMG's advice to Gulf Sheikhs to resist attempts by Saudi Arabia to recover runaway slaves
Attempts to recover British protected persons who have been enslaved in Saudi Arabia, including the case of Afrah Bint Mohammad who was kidnapped from Buraimi
The extinction, in Bahrain, of forced unpaid labour in date gardens and debt bondage in pearl diving
The regulations governing pearl diving, issued by the Ruler of Qatar
The manumission of slaves across the Trucial Coast, including: Id Bin Suwaid, a slave of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh S
