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Sale Document of a Male Slave (1901)

Sale document of an Abyssinian male eunuch slave, Haji Bashir Khan, between Malik Mansur Mirza Shoaosaltaneh and Faraj Allah Khan Ata o-Dowleh, the head of artillery in the state of Fars, Iran, issued in 25 August 1901. Slavery was formally abolished in Iran in 1929.

* Sale Document: Courtesy of Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive, Harvard Library.

Sale Document of a Male Slave — Sale document of a male slave, 1901. Bahman Bayani. Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive. Middle Eastern Division, Widener Library, Harvard Library.

Emancipation of Slaves Law, 1929

Qajar harem with a slave in the back row

Prostitute and Slave, Photograph by Antoin Sevruguin

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