Correspondence relating to Domestic Slavery in the Sierra Leone 
Protectorate. 
No. 1. 
Despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the 
Governor of Sierra Leone. 
“Answered by No. 2.7 
Downing Street, 
27th March, 1924. 
SIR, 
1 have the honour to transmit to you an extract from a letter from 
the Secretary-General of the League of Nations regarding an inquiry 
which the Teague is conducting into the question of slavery. 
2. TI should be glad if you would furnish me as soon as possible 
with the information asked for by the League, so far as relates to 
the territory under vour administration. 
I have, etc., 
J. H. THOMAS. 
Enclosure in No. 1. 
League of Nations, 
Geneva, 
29nd December, 1923. 
My I.orD, 
In consideration of the resolution adopted by the Fourth Assembly, 
the Council of the League of Nations, at its meeting on the 11th 
December, 1923, decided to continue its inquiry with regard to the 
question of slavery. In conformity with the terms of that decision. 
I have been instructed to request that, should slavery have been 
known to exist in any part of the territory at present under the 
administration of the British Government, you would consider the 
possibility of communicating to the Council information on the 
following points :— 
1. What means, legislative, administrative or other, have 
been applied in the territory of Great Britain or in its Colonies, 
Protectorates, and mandated territories, tn secure the sup- 
pression of slavery? 
2. What have been the results of the application of these 
measures? Has slavery thereby been automatically and com- 
pletely suppressed, or is it gradually dying out? What are 
the economic and social results of the measures taken, for the 
former masters. for the slaves. for the Government. and for