Before revision: Early life in Zanzibar Salama bint Said was born on 30 August 1844, the daughter of Sultan Said and Jilfidan, a Circassian slave , turned concubine (some accounts also note her as Georgian Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print; From Zanzibar to Beirut by Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California Press, 2014, p.204Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World by Burkhard Schnepel, Edward A. Alpers, 2017, p.148Balcony, Door, Shutter - Baroque heritage as materiality and biography in Stone Town, Zanzibar by Pamila Gupta, Vienna, 2019, p.14).
After revision: of the Circassian slave tradeEarly life in Zanzibar Salama bint Said was born on 30 August 1844, the daughter of Sultan Said and Jilfidan, a Circassian slave , turned concubine (some accounts also note her as Georgian Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print; From Zanzibar to Beirut by Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California Press, 2014, p.204Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World by Burkhard Schnepel, Edward A. Alpers, 2017, p.148Balcony, Door, Shutter - Baroque heritage as materiality and biography in Stone Town, Zanzibar by Pamila Gupta, Vienna, 2019, p.14).