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Race, Slavery and Domesticity in Late Qajar Chronicles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2022
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This article examines cultural attitudes on race and African slavery in late Qajar chronicles prior to abolition in 1929. In contrast to previous scholarship, Qajar textual sources reveal that elite cultural attitudes were relevant in structuring the social conditions of enslavement in Iran. Visual depictions and narratives about African eunuchs and concubines naturalized the violent acquisition and use of the Other. Slave narratives also bear witness to how such views of African corporeality determined the social worth of eunuchs and concubines in the domestic sphere.
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This article was possible in part by a travel grant awarded by the UC Davis Faculty Association in 2014.
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