We have found no indication that any of the servants in the household
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We have found no indication that any of the servants in the household of Bahá’u’lláh were slaves. The only information we have found on this subject is the following extract:
My grandfather had many colored maids and servants. When the Blessed Perfection became the head of the family he liberated all of them, and gave them permission to leave or stay, but if they desired to remain it would, of course, be in a different manner. However, all of them, revelling in their new found freedom preferred to leave, except Esfandayar [sic], who remained in household and continued to serve us with proverbial faithfulness and chastity.
Source: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Star of the West, volume 9 April 28, 1928, number 3, p. 38
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