Correspondence about the League of Nations' Slavery Convention

Title

Correspondence about the League of Nations' Slavery Convention

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 101

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-60: Correspondence with Lord Balfour (in Geneva), the Colonial and India Offices, M. Gohr, the Belgian Minister for the Colonies, Sir Robert Hamilton, Arthur Steel-Maitland at the Ministry of Labour, Travers Buxton, Sir John Harris, Dr J.C. Maxwell-Garnett, secretary of the League of Nations Union, Abraham Fletcher of the Rockefeller Foundation and Kenneth Maclennan of the Conference of Missionary Societies about the Slavery Convention proposed by the League of Nations, 1922-1926.

File 2, fols. 1-43: Report by M. Delafosse of the Institut Ethnographique International de Paris on Slavery, Chapters V and VI, Edward Arnett's comments on it, with a gloss by Sir Richard Ramage and correspondence with Huntington Gilchrist and Delafosse about Lugard's comments and the subsequent amendments to the French and English texts of the report of the Slavery Commission, 1925.

File 3, fols. 1-114: Correspondence with A.L. Warnshuis, American Secretary of the International Missionary Council, about an attempt by a group of Americans to involve the United States Government in the new international treaty on slavery, 1926-1929. Also several drafts of a memorandum by the Council, together with Lugard's correspondence with Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir Eric Drummond, Gohr and Delafosse about the League of Nations' Slavery Convention.

File 4, fols. 1-6: "Notes on Slavery Question by Sir Frederick Lugard" (typescript), n.d.

File 5, fols. 1-11: Newspaper cuttings concerning the attitude of the League of Nations and of individual nations to the slavery issue, 1924-1927.

Date

1922-1929

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box