Foreign Office: Slave Trade Department and successors: General Correspondence before 1906

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): FO 84

Title: Foreign Office: Slave Trade Department and successors: General Correspondence before 1906

Date(s): 1816 - 1892

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 2276 volume(s)

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This series contains correspondence files of the Slave Trade and African Departments 1816-1913.

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Conditions governing access: Available in microform only

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT)

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Related units of description: For records of nineteenth-century commissions dealing with the slave trade see: Cape Town, PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT) series FO 312; Havana, PROCAT series FO 313; Jamaica, PROCAT series FO 314; London, PROCAT series FO 308; Sierra Leone, PROCAT series FO 315; see also PROCAT series: CO 444

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

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Slavery

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Foreign Office, Consular and African (East and West) Department, 1882-1893

Foreign Office, Consular and Slave Trade Department, 1871-1880

Foreign Office, Slave Trade and Sanitary Department, 1880-1882

Foreign Office, Slave Trade Department, 1841-1872

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