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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