Said@Duke: Princeton Historian Beeta Baghoolizadeh on 'The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran'

“After abolition in 1929 Iranians restructured their society to accommodate a life without enslaved labor and in the process rewrote their histories and redesigned society to erase slavery completely.”

-- Beeta Baghoolizadeh is a historian and Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.

Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a historian and associate research scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, recently spoke at a launch for her book, "The Color Black. Enslavement and Erasure in Iran."

The Duke University Middle East Studies Center, the Department of African and African American Studies and Duke University Press sponsored the event.

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