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Abstract:
The African slave trade to Iran in the 1800s, and the lives of household slaves of one specific merchant family from Shiraz, that of The Báb, as described in the narrative of Abu'l-Qasim Afnan.
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Conference paper presented at the International Conference "Slavery, Islam and Diaspora," at the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, Department of History, York University, Toronto, October 24-26 2003.
As of 2012, the original conference information is still online: see abstracts and program. This paper is also abstracted in the annual bibliographical supplement of the journal Slavery & Abolition. [Research and contribution by Steve Cooney.] See also the complete book, and a prefaces and forewords by A. Lee and M. Momen. |
Abstract [typed from yorku.ca/nhp/conferences/2003/york2003/abstract.asp?page=001]: Slavery in the Middle East can be, and often is, approached in terms of laws and diplomacy, statistics and economics, as the availability of sources most readily supports such discussion. What is less usual, and much harder, is to attempt to examine the lives of individual slaves: to give names, faces, and personalities to slavery. In addition, most discussion concentrates on African slavery in various provinces of the Ottoman Empire and does not address the slave trade from Africa to Iran and the participation of Iranian merchants in the trade. Download: armstrong-ingram_black_pearls.pdf.
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