1. 2024. Amazing Grace: Stories of Personal Transformation from Slavery to the Present Day. Jaine Toth. — A lengthy script, with accompanying slides, depicting real life stories of Americans, both black and...
2. 2024. Bahá'u'lláh, The Liberator of the Oppressed. Mohammad Norozi, comp. and ed. — Brief compilation of accounts of two Ethiopian slaves in Iran; African servants in Baha'u'llah's hou...
3. 2020. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections. Layli Maparyan. — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
4. 2019. Writings of the Báb: Lecture Series at the Norwegian Summer School. Nader Saiedi. — On topics including the concept of God; Manifestations of God; Day of Resurrection, heaven and hell;...
5. 2019. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh. Derik Smith. — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
6. 2018/2020. Laws Abrogated by Bahá'u'lláh. Anonymous, comp. — Laws abolished from previous religions and from the Bayan.
7. 2018. Bahá'u'lláh and Peace: A Series of Four Talks. Nader Saiedi. — Talks at the Santa Monica Baha’i Center in California on four areas within the context of Baha'u'l...
8. 2017-2020. List of Articles by Nader Saiedi on BahaiTeachings.org. Nader Saiedi. — Links to 40 essays about Baha'i teachings on spiritual unity, justice, freedom, democracy, and globa...
9. 2017. Ziba Khanum of Yazd: An Enslaved African Woman in Nineteenth-Century Iran. Anthony Lee. — Issues of race, gender, slavery, and religion as experienced by an Afro-Iranian family in the 19th a...
10. 2016. Recovering the Lives of Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran: A First Attempt. Anthony Lee. — Reconstructing the lives of four slaves in the Middle East, including Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum...
11. 2016. Recovering Biographies of Enslaved Africans In Nineteenth-Century Iran. Anthony Lee. — On the history, and lack of scholarship about, the East-African slave trade to Iran; as many as 1-2 ...
12. 2015. Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two African Slaves in Iran. Anthony Lee. — Biographies of two enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum, the servants of The Ba...
13. 2014-09-02. Tablet of Emancipation, The. Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í World Centre, trans. . — Authorized translation of a prayer in which Baha'u'llah frees a slave.
14. 2014. Text and Context in the Bahá'í Heroic Age. Nader Saiedi. — A series of 12 talks by Nader Saiedi exploring Baha'i history, key writings, and the need for schola...
15. 2012-02. Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz. Anthony Lee. — Through an examination of the life of this servant of The Bab, this paper addresses the enormous gap...
16. 2011. Ethiopian King, The. Nader Saiedi, Omid Ghaemmaghami, trans. . — This article brings to light a number of hitherto unknown passages from the writings of the Bab abou...
17. 2003-10. Black Pearls: The African Household Slaves of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Merchant Family. R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. — The African slave trade to Iran in the 1800s, and the lives of household slaves of one specific merc...
18. 2000-02-02. Servants in the Households of Baha'u'llah and the Bab. Universal House of Justice, Research Department. — Whether or not the servants of the Bab and Baha'u'llah were slaves, and a list of relevant sources f...
19. 2000. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination. Bahíyyih Nakhjavání. — On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjecti...
20. 1997. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology. Juan Cole. — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
21. 1991. Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
22. 1988/1999. Black Pearls: Notes on Slavery. Moojan Momen, Abu'l-Qasim Afnan, Anthony Lee. — Editor's note, foreword, preface, and introduction to two editions of Black Pearls; brief overview o...
23. 1988. Black Pearls: Servants in the Households of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh. Abu'l-Qasim Afnan. — Biographies of Haji Mubarak, Fiddih, Isfandiyar, Mas'ud, and Salih Aqa; slavery and Islamic history....
24. 1982-2023. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history. Encyclopaedia Iranica. — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.

1. 1807-03-25 — The Bill to abolish the Atlantic slave trade received Royal Assent in the British Parliament. The A...
2. 1839-00-02 — As the eldest son, after the passing of Mirza Buzurg, Baha'u'llah assumed His place as the head of t...

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