Catalogue description Foreign Office: Slave Trade Department and successors: General Correspondence before 1906

This series contains correspondence, etc., of the Slave Trade and African Departments.

Selected records within this series are available to download as digital microfilm.

For records of nineteenth-century commissions dealing with the slave trade see:

See also CO 444

(Cape Town), FO 312

(Havana), FO 313

(Jamaica), FO 314

(London), FO 308

(Sierra Leone) FO 315

Later correspondence dated 1893-1897 is included within Subsubseries within FO 83

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