Unnamed Enslaved Person 8 (Ḥabashiyya)
Description / Bio
Abyssinian enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale from 1260 CE in which she was sold by Mūsā b. Abū l-ʿIzz al-Kohen to the buyer Abū l-Faḍl b. Abū l-ʿAlā. The enslaved woman is listed in the document with a medical condition: leukoma of the left eye. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 128)