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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1874. Volume I. Dispatches: Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, Trinidad, Jamaica |
| Date | 5 Dec 1873 - 13 Jan 1875 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/102 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
| Description | Dispatches related to emigration and immigration of indentured labourers from India and China to the West Indies. Includes information on immigration agents, plantation owners, immigration returns, murder cases and disease on board emigrant ships. |
| 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) | Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation; Journey Conditions; Politics, Legislation and Governance |
| Country (from) | India; China; Sierra Leone; South Africa |
| Country (to) | Windward Islands; Leeward Islands; Trinidad; Jamaica; St Kitts; Nevis |
| Places | Grenada; Barbados; St Vincent; Tobago; St Lucia; Demerara, British Guiana; Bengal; Calcutta, India |
| Ports | Port of Spain, Trinidad; Natal, South Africa |
| Nationality | Indian; Chinese; African |
| Ships | Gainsborough; Syria; Brockham; Jumna; Winchester; Woodburn; Wiltshire; Dilharree; Rajah of Cochin; John Allan; Colmonell; Hourah; Atalanta; Ganges; Liverpool; Ellenborough; Sevilla; Ameilla; Albert Victor; Malabone; Poonah; Arima; Flying Foam; Indus; Duke of Argyll; Loch Lomond; Aliquis; Merchantman; Hereford; Salisbury; Humber; Sea Queen; Lincelles; Lalona; Stockbridge; Alnwick Castle |
| People | Freeling, Lieutenant Governor Sandford; Lord Carnarvon (Herbert, Henry Howard Molyneux); Rawson, Sir Rawson William; Campbell, Alexander Augustus Melfort |
| Keywords | emigration, government, colony, finance, exploitation, religion, wages, shipping, death, crime, employment, murder, labourer, labour, health and sickness, journey conditions, food, sanitation, cholera, surgeon, measles, execution, dysentery, disease, Coolie |
| Language | English |
| Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1874. Volume 2. Despatches: British Guiana Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1874. Volume 3. Offices and Individuals |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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