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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho...
Catalogue reference: DO 212
What's it about?
DO 212
This series contains records of the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the former High Commission territories in southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DO 212
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the former High Commission territories in southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later Commonwealth Office files see:
For earlier Colonial Office records for these territories see CO 1048 FCO 31 FCO 45 FCO 29
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Commonwealth Office, East Africa Department, 1967-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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14 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Africa
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The East Africa Department in the Commonwealth Office dealt with UK and Commonwealth relations with Commonwealth and remaining colonial states in East and Southern Africa. These functions passed to an East and Southern Africa Department in 1967, the title of which then reverted to East Africa Department, before passing to the East Africa Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office upon its formation in October 1968.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6221/
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Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS Series)
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