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Hind

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Gender
Female
Social roles
  • Enslaved person
  • Manumitted person

Description / Bio

Manumitted woman who is mentioned in a communal letter, or possibly a legal document, warning that no one should ever re-enslave her. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 2, no. 8)

Matthew Dudley, "Hind," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/hind/, accessed June 6, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/hind/