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Black Pearls| |
| Author | R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram |
Title of item | Black Pearls |
Subtitle of item | The African Household Slaves of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Merchant Family |
| Date of this edition | 2003-10 |
| Language | English |
| Permission | author |
| Posted | 2012-02-05 by Jonah Winters |
| Formatted | 2012-02-04 by Jonah Winters |
| Classified in | Unpublished Articles |
| URL | bahai-library.com/armstrong-ingram_black_pearls |
| 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. |
| Notes | 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. |
| Tags | African diaspora; Bab, Life of (documents); Fezzeh Khanum; Haji Mubarak; Servants; Slavery |
| Locations | Iran (documents) | | Page views | 7132 hits since 2012-02-05 |
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