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Language: en
Pages: 288
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-12 - Publisher: Yale University Press
This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conve
Language: en
Pages: 201
Pages: 201
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
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,
Language: en
Pages: 206
Pages: 206
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This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to an