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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Commerce and Slavery on Iran's Frontiers, 1600–1800: An Overview -- Chapter 2 Slavery and Forging New Iranian Frontiers, 1800–1900 -- Chapter 3 The Trade in Enslaved People from Africa to Iran, 1800–1900 -- Chapter 4 Patterns of Enslavement -- Chapter 5 Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Iran -- Chapter 6 Slave-Trade Suppression Legislation -- Chapter 7 Antislavery Debates Within Iran -- Chapter 8 Emancipation -- Final Thoughts -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Verlagsinfo: Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written. This history extends to Africa in the west and India in the east, to Russia and Turkmenistan in the north, and to the Arab states in the south. As the slave trade between Iran and these regions shifted over time, it transformed the nation and helped forge its unique culture and identity. Thus, a history of Iranian slavery is crucial to understanding the character of the modern nation. Drawing on extensive archival research in Iran, Tanzania, England, and France, as well as fieldwork and interviews in Iran, Behnaz A. Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century. She investigates how foreign military incursion, frontier insecurity, political instability, and economic crisis altered the patterns of enslavement, as well as the ethnicity of the slaves themselves. Mirzai's interdisciplinary analysis illuminates the complex issues surrounding the history of the slave trade and the process of emancipation in Iran, while also giving voice to social groups that have never been studied - enslaved Africans and Iranians. Her research builds a clear case that the trade in slaves was inexorably linked to the authority of the state. During periods of greater decentralization, slave trading increased, while periods of greater governmental autonomy saw more freedom and peace.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction / Behnaz A. Mirzai and Bonny Ibhawoh -- From Bilal to Barack: what are the implications for recognition, empowerment and equity in the African diaspora? / Edward A. Alpers -- "Where the path break": divergent diasporas and Black emancipation / O.B. Oduntan -- "Resilient but disempowered: representations of African pearl divers in contemporary heritage discourses versus early twentieth-century manumission records in the UAE" / John Thabiti Willis -- Tracing Baluch identity in Zanzibar / Amirbahram Arabahmadi -- UNESCO slave route project: a reparative vehicle of historical truth-telling about transatlantic slavery? / David Wilkins -- Debating the place of African Americans in California, 1850-1870 / Dana Elizabeth Weiner -- Nationalists and dissidents: African anti-colonialism and the making of universal human rights / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Labor in the context of immigration: a new form of slavery? Reading two contemporary Nigerian novels / Fouad Mami -- Empowering the nation: education and self-reliance in Julius Nyerere's political thought / Adebisi Alade -- Gender-based violence and the problem of modern-day slavery within the sex trade / Dolana Mogadime