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It is not exactly clear when #Khyzran was born. Historical documents tell us that it was somewhere around 1834 near #Zanzibar, an island off of #Tanzania, #Africa.
It is not exactly clear when #Khyzran was born. Historical documents tell us that it was somewhere around 1834 near #Zanzibar, an island off of #Tanzania, #Africa.
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Records also show that Khyzran was brought into the port city, and sold to a man into slavery.
Records also show that Khyzran was brought into the port city, and sold to a man into slavery.
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The man kept Khyzran enslaved until she was 13. Upon his death, Khyzran was free again, until...
The man kept Khyzran enslaved until she was 13. Upon his death, Khyzran was free again, until...
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...one night, Khyzran and her sister walked home from a dance through the narrow, stone-paved streets of Zanzibar when a band of three men kidnapped them.
...one night, Khyzran and her sister walked home from a dance through the narrow, stone-paved streets of Zanzibar when a band of three men kidnapped them.
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They dragged them to a rowboat.
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The boat set sail away from everything Khyzran knew, into unfamiliar sounds, smells and sights…
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...into the Persian Gulf.
They dragged them to a rowboat.
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The boat set sail away from everything Khyzran knew, into unfamiliar sounds, smells and sights…
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...into the Persian Gulf.
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For more on #Khyzran’s story, stay tuned, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Produced by the Collective with our resident historian, Beeta Baghoolizadeh, and resident artist, Mina Jafari.
For more on #Khyzran’s story, stay tuned, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Produced by the Collective with our resident historian, Beeta Baghoolizadeh, and resident artist, Mina Jafari.
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Sources:
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British Library IOR:1:15:157, Letters no. 238, 276.
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Anthony Lee, “Recovering Biographies of Enslaved Africans in 19th century Iran.”
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Niambi Cacchioli, “Fugitive Slaves, Asylum and Manumission in Iran (1851-1913),” UNESCO Culture, The Slave Route.
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Sources:
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British Library IOR:1:15:157, Letters no. 238, 276.
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Anthony Lee, “Recovering Biographies of Enslaved Africans in 19th century Iran.”
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Niambi Cacchioli, “Fugitive Slaves, Asylum and Manumission in Iran (1851-1913),” UNESCO Culture, The Slave Route.
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Hideaki Suzuki, “The Transformation of East African Coastal Urban Society with Regard to the Slave Distribution System” in Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean (Palgrave, 2017), 97-113.
Many thanks to Zavier Wingham and Dr. Katie Hickerson for their help.
Hideaki Suzuki, “The Transformation of East African Coastal Urban Society with Regard to the Slave Distribution System” in Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean (Palgrave, 2017), 97-113.
Many thanks to Zavier Wingham and Dr. Katie Hickerson for their help.
