Original sentence: During the Qajar dynasty, many wealthy households imported Black African women and children as slaves to perform domestic work.However, Mohammad Shah Qajar, under British pressure, issued a firman suppressing the slave trade in 1848.This slave labor was drawn exclusively from the Zanj, who were Bantu-speaking peoples that lived along the coast of the Southeast Africa, in an area roughly comprising modern-day Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi.To meet the demand for menial labor, black slaves captured by Arab slave traders were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Arabia, India, the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands and Ethiopia
Edited sentence: During the Qajar dynasty, Ethiopian and Nubian females were brought over and mostly employed as concubines and confidantes in harems and could reach key positions.Females from the Swahili Coast were employed often for domestic work.However, Mohammad Shah Qajar, issued a firman suppressing the slave trade into Iran in 1848.People from the Zanj, who were Bantu-speaking peoples that lived along the coast of the Southeast Africa, in an area roughly comprising modern-day Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi were also brought into Iran for work.To meet the demand for menial labor, Africans were captured by Arab slave traders were sold in cumulatively large numbers over the centuries to the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Arabia, India, the Far East, the Indian Ocean islands and Ethiopia