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Slavery and abolition in the Ottoman Middle East

Author: Ehud R Toledano
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1998.
Series: Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In the Ottoman Empire, many members of the ruling elite were legally slaves of the sultan and therefore could, technically, be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment. Nevertheless, slavery provided a means of social mobility, conferring status and political power within the military, the bureaucracy, or the domestic household and formed an essential part of patronage networks.  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ehud R Toledano
ISBN: 029597642X 9780295976426
OCLC Number: 36485950
Description: xii, 185 p. ; 23 cn.
Contents: Ottoman slavery and the slave trade --
Kul/harem slavery : the men, the women, the eunuchs --
The other face of harem bondage : abuse and redress --
Agricultural slavery among Ottoman Circassians --
Slavery and abolition : the battle of images --
Discourses on Ottoman and Ottoman-Arab slavery --
Ottoman slavery in world slavery
Series Title: Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
Other Titles: Slavery and abolition
Responsibility: Ehud R. Toledano.

Abstract:

"In the Ottoman Empire, many members of the ruling elite were legally slaves of the sultan and therefore could, technically, be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment. Nevertheless, slavery provided a means of social mobility, conferring status and political power within the military, the bureaucracy, or the domestic household and formed an essential part of patronage networks. Ehud R. Toledano's exploration of slavery from the Ottoman viewpoint is based on extensive research in British, French, and Turkish archives and offers rich, original, and important insights into Ottoman life and thought. In an attempt to humanize the narrative and take it beyond the plane of numbers, tables and charts, Toledano examines the situations of individuals representing the principal realms of Ottoman slavery, female harem slaves, the sultan's military and civilian kuls, court and elite eunuchs, domestic slaves, Circassian agricaultural slaves, slave dealers, and slave owners. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East makes available new and significantly revised studies on nineteenth-century Middle Eastern slavery and suggests general approaches to the study of slavery in different cultures."

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