Entry-Books of Correspondence: Letters to the Colonial Office. British Guiana, 1864-1868 : Correspondence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murdoch, Thomas William Clinton, author.

Walcott, Stephen, author.

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Migration to new worlds.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Description: Copies of out-letters regarding indentured labour in British Guiana, mostly addressed to Sir Frederic Rogers, some for the attention of the Secretary of State. The correspondence is primarily concerned with the health of migrants and mortality rates on board migrant vessels, but also covers colonial legislation, liberated Africans, conditions on estates in British Guiana, the supply of labour, sanitation, and proposals to extend the recruitment of indentured migration to the United States and further regions of China. An index is included at the end of the volume.

Notes:

A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities which were both under the supervision of the Secretary of State. These were the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, established under an Act of 1834, and the Agent General for Emigration, appointed in 1837. The new commission dealt with grants of land, the outward movement of settlers, the administration of the Passengers' Acts of 1855 and 1863 and, from 1846 to 1859, the scrutiny of colonial legislation. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. In 1873 the administration of the Passengers' Acts was transferred to the Board of Trade. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 its only duties were the control of the importation of Indian indentured labour into sugar-producing colonies and it was abolished in 1878.

AMDigital Reference: CO 386/96.

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