(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION GREAT BRITAIN) [PERSIA] British gove

Sale 2408 - Lot 25

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--GREAT BRITAIN.) [PERSIA]. British government manumission certificate. Folio leaf with the British flag and royal sigil; Persian (Arabic script) on one side and English on the other; creased and a few wrinkles, but otherwise quite fresh. Tehran, circa 1929

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Aware that slavery was rampant amongst the wealthy in Persia, the British government put pressure on the Persian government to put an end to the slave trade. The Shah ordered the Majlis (parliament) to act and offered freedom ipso facto to anyone who came onto Persian land or coastal waters, but the British to distributed documents like this to be filled out and presented at the British Embassy. Slavery continues to this day in parts of the Middle East as well as West Africa, on the cocoa plantations where hundreds of children are enslaved for life because of family debt.