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Enslaved Black Woman in Iran, 1714 People from Eastern Africa were brought to Khuzistan in southwestern Iran to work in sugarcane plantations. Females were employed as wet nurses and nannies. Many also served as concubines; under Islamic law their own children, called khanazad (house-born), became members of the slaveholder’s family.
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