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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 3. Jamaica, Windward and Leeward Islands and Miscellaneous Despatches
Date 1 Jan 1883 - 15 Mar 1884
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/145
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description Despatches from the Governors and colonial staff in the West Indies to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. This material covers subjects such as staff appointments, with particular reference to the post of Protector of Immigrants in Jamaica and Natal. Also discussed is the movement of labourers from India and China to the Colonies, the difficulty in securing labourers, and the living and health conditions of labourers on ships and at plantations.
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; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences; Remigration
Country (from) Ireland; Great Britain; China; Jamaica; Trinidad; St Vincent; Grenada; St Lucia; Nevis; Mauritius; St Helena; British Honduras; Barbados; British Guiana; Antigua; India
Country (to) Mexico; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Canada; Australia; Sierra Leone; Gambia; Panama; Jamaica; Trinidad; St Vincent; Grenada; St Lucia; Nevis; Mauritius; St Helena; British Honduras; Barbados; British Guiana; Antigua; India
Places Campeche, Mexico; Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa; Queensland, Australia; Kingston, Jamaica; Colon, Panama; Ottawa, Canada; Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ports Calcutta, India; Hong Kong, China; Natal, South Africa
Nationality Chinese; Indian; Sinhalese; English; Irish; German
Ships Neva; Howrah; Bayard; Hesperides; Silhet; Chetah; Lightning; Belize; Maria Louisa; Countess of Ripon; Dover Castle; Empress Eugenie; Lincelles; Born in Ireland
People Wingfield, Edward; Musgrave, Anthony; Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward); Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham; Ashley, Evelyn; Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Robinson, Sir William; Gore, Augustus Frederick; Bulwer, Henry Ernest Gascoyne; Longden, Sir James Robert
Keywords labour, labourers, hospital, health, disease, sickness, plantation conditions, education, small pox, epidemic, Irish Land Act, execution, land grant, remigration, return passage, murder, crime, yaws, wages
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 1]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 2]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 3]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 4. Offices, Companies and Agents (Except Crown Agents) [Part 4]
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1883. Volume 5. Crown Agents, Individuals and Surgeons
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