Contesting Enslavement: Voices of the Female Slaves from the Persian Gulf in the 1930s


The article is on slavery in the Persian Gulf, as documented in the official reports of British officials and the slaves’ statements made at the British Agencies in the Gulf. Between 1921 and 1946 around 950 slaves applied for manumission. There were almost 280 women among the applicants and data fr...

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Main Author: Zdanowski, Jerzy 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2015, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-82
Further subjects:B slavery
 Persian Gulf
 social system
 women
 British manumission

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