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Foreign Office: Slave Trade Department and successors: General Correspondence before...
Catalogue reference: FO 84
What's it about?
FO 84
This series contains correspondence, etc., of the Slave Trade and African Departments. Selected records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 84
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Slave Trade Department and successors: General Correspondence before 1906
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1816-1892
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence, etc., of the Slave Trade and African Departments.
Selected records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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(Cape Town), FO 312
(Jamaica), FO 314
Later correspondence dated 1893-1897 is included within
See also CO 444
(Sierra Leone) FO 315
For records of nineteenth-century commissions dealing with the slave trade see:
(Havana), FO 313
(London), FO 308
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Consular and African (East and West) Department, 1882-1893
- Foreign Office, Consular and Slave Trade Department, 1871-1880
- Foreign Office, Slave Trade and Sanitary Department, 1880-1882
- Foreign Office, Slave Trade Department, 1841-1872
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2276 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in digital format and microform only
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7404/
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