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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1879. Volume 3. Despatches: Trinidad, Windward and Leeward Islands
Date 20 Jan 1879 - 6 Feb 1880
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/124
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence
Description Despatches from Trinidad, Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands regarding the arrival of shipping and the condition of indentured labourers. Includes reports of Emigration Agents, details of numbers arriving per ship, details of reprimanded Emigration Agents, details of executed indentured labourers and schemes for the encouragement of indentured labourer migration.
Series Description This series contains correspondence relating to British settlement in North America and Australasia, and to Indian indentured labour in the West Indies. Until 1857 it consists of domestic letters alone. The series then ceases and is not resumed until 1872.
Biographical Note / History A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities under the supervision of the secretary of state: the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia and the Agent General for Emigration. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 it was responsible only for controlling the importation of Indian labour into sugar-producing colonies. It was abolished in 1878 and an Emigration Department was then set up in the Colonial Office. This department was merged with the General Department in 1894, and abolished altogether in 1896.
Theme(s) Politics, Legislation and Governance
Country (from) India
Country (to) Trinidad; Windward Islands; Leeward Islands
Places St. Vincent; Barbados; Grenada; St. Lucia; Nevis; Virgin Islands
Nationality Indian
Ships Jura; Ailsa; Pandora; Brenda; Sheila; Cheetah
People Dundas, George; Meade, Sir Robert Henry; Bramston, Sir John; Lord Cadogan (Cadogan, George Henry); Herbert, Sir Robert G W; Wingfield, Edward
Keywords emigration, government, finance, assisted migration, supplies, ships, employment, agent, women, labour, port, religion, medicine, employment, crime, death
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1879. Volume 1. Eastern, Australian and Miscellaneous Despatches
Emigration (including Coolie Immigration), 1879. Volume 2. British Guiana and Jamaica Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1879. Volume 4. Offices (except Agents) and Companies
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1879. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons
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