Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema   From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery.   How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and...

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema   From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery.   How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and...