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Title Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1880. Volume 4. Offices (except Agents) and Companies
Date 21 Jan-29 Dec 1880
Document Type Correspondence; Manuscript
Reference CO 384/130
Library / Archive The National Archives
Collection Name War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence.
Description Correspondence to various government offices regarding emigration and immigration in the British Colonies. Topics covered by these letters include emigration schemes, staff appointments and administration, the movement of labour around the West Indies, and return passages and treatment of indentured workers as well as free or assisted migration and the prohibition of alcohol distribution to indentured workers in some colonies.
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; Remigration
Country (from) Great Britain; Germany; Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Belgium; Austria; Switzerland; Holland; Italy; Poland; Finland; Hungary; South Africa; Mozambique; Mauritius; Brazil; United States of America; Réunion; China; Cuba; India; Canada; Chile; Peru; Argentina; Australia; Fiji; Trinidad; Jamaica; St Vincent; St Lucia; Malaysia; Antigua
Country (to) South Africa; Mozambique; Mauritius; Brazil; United States of America; Réunion; China; Cuba; India; Canada; Chile; Peru; Argentina; Australia; Fiji; Trinidad; Jamaica; St Vincent; St Lucia; Malaysia; Antigua
Places Delagoa Bay, Amatongas, Mozambique; Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, Brazil; Washington, Baltimore, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, United States; Hermannsburg, Berlin, Germany; Demerara, British Guiana; Simla, Bengal, India
Ports Calcutta, India; Bremen, Hamburg, Stettin, Antwerp, Germany; Hong Kong, China; Natal, South Africa
Nationality English; Irish; Welsh; Scottish; Indian; Chinese; German; Swedish; Belgian; Polynesian; Norwegian; African; Danish; French
Ships Hesperia
People Lord Cadogan (Cadogan, George Henry); Earl St Aldwyn (Hicks Beach, Sir Michael); Marquis of Salisbury (Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert); Earl Granville (Leveson-Gower, Granville George); Lord Kimberley (Wodehouse, John); Stanhope, Edward; Viscount Cranbrook (Gawthorne-Hardy, Gawthorne); Duke of Devonshire (Compton Cavendish, Spencer)
Keywords emigration scheme, labour, labourers, Thiers' Automatic Ventilator, alcohol, return passage, rations, nominated assisted passage, free passage
Language English
Document(s) linked to Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1880. Volume 1. Despatches: Eastern, Australian and Miscellaneous
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1880. Volume 2. Despatches: British Guiana
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1880. Volume 3. Despatches: Trinidad, Windward and Leeward Islands and Jamaica
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1880. Volume 5. Agents, Individuals and Surgeons
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