Correspondence about the League of Nations and slavery

Title

Correspondence about the League of Nations and slavery

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 102

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-31: Correspondence with Lord Robert Cecil about the League of Nations' Convention on Slavery, its revision and final acceptance and about slavery in the Hedjaz, with a comment by Delafosse on Cecil's attitude and manuscript notes by Lugard, 1923-1925.

File 2, fols. 1-118: Correspondence with John Murray of the Foreign Office concerning the material officially supplied to Lugard as the recognized British Representative on the Temporary Committee on Slavery in Geneva, with reports of slavery in Abyssinia, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Egypt, Liberia, the Hedjaz, Arabia, Persia and Turkey, 1924-1925.

File 3, fols. 1-112 and item 1: Correspondence with the Foreign, Colonial and India Offices, with information supplied to Lugard by the Foreign Office, his reports to it with a memorandum on the proposed Convention, 1924-1932. Territories discussed include India, the Trucial States, Burma, Liberia, Abyssinia, the Hedjaz, Hong Kong, Angola and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

File 4, fols. 1-71: Correspondence with the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society about a memorial addressed to the Prime Minister, the action of the League of Nations with regard to slavery and its setting up a permanent Committee of Experts on the subject, and the pressure the Society was bringing to bear on it in Geneva, 1929-1932.

File 5, fols. 1-9: Correspondence with officials in Geneva, including Lord Robert Cecil, Sir Eric Drummond (the Secretary General), Vito Catastini (Secretary of the Committee of Experts on Slavery) and W. Phelan of the International Labour Office, 1932.

File 6, fols. 1-11: Correspondence with Sir Alexander Wood Renton about slavery and penal law and with Sir Ranstead Slater about slavery in the Gold Coast, 1932.

Date

1923-1932

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box