Sojourners Sultans And Slaves

Author : Gunja SenGupta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520389158
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves written by Gunja SenGupta and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves mines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, "free labor" experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns. They show how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world, revealing the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with liberal contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populates the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East" in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of US slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency.

Author : Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802421
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East written by Ehud R. Toledano and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christiane Bird
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0345469402
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sultan's Shadow written by Christiane Bird and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2010 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

Author : Harry Johnston
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of a Slave written by Harry Johnston and published by London : K. Paul, Trench. This book was released on 1889 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert W. Harms
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016646X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition written by Robert W. Harms and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: div While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave trading./DIV

Author : Madeline Zilfi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515831
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire written by Madeline Zilfi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Author : Frederick Millingen (Major, F.R.G.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Turkey. The Sultan's Harem ... written by Frederick Millingen (Major, F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerzy Zdanowski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443861634
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking With Their Own Voices written by Jerzy Zdanowski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of the slavery and manumission practiced in the Persian Gulf region in the first half of the 20th century. It is unique as it exposes the life stories of several hundred slaves, speaking with their own voices. A striking aspect of the majority of studies on slavery is that they provide the reader with excellent statistics and describe the mechanism of enslavement, the routes of slave trading, and the economic and social conditions of enslaved people, but slaves themselves generally remain anonymous. The premise of this book is to give voice directly to the slaves by presenting in full-length their statements made at the British Agencies in Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bushire. Altogether around 1,000 statements were made by slaves asking for manumission certificates, and the analysis of these statements sheds light on various aspects of social, economic and political life on the Arabian shore of the Gulf. Given that it uncovers new aspects of the every-day life of the Arabian Peninsula, this book will also be of help to people of this region who are looking for their roots.

Author : Henry Moa
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781723801075
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave Who Became Sultan written by Henry Moa and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roukn al-Din Baybars was born in 1223 in a Turkish tribe Kipchak installed in the Ukrainian Plains. He was captured by Mongolians horsemen and sold to a Russian slave trafficker who takes him to the city of La Tana, Venetian traderpost installed on the edge of the Don River. There, he is bought at the slave market by a Venetian merchant who takes him in Syria, in the town of Sivas, where he is sold to the emir of Aleppo. He is incorporated in a school for young slaves. At the end of his training, he joined the guard of the emir. One day, he is spotted by the Sultan As-Salih Ayyub and buys him to the Emir of Aleppo. He then joined the guard Mamluk of the Sultan and moved to Cairo. In 1242, the Mongolians leave in the countryside for conquest the Middle East. In 1244, the Khwarezmians Turks take Jerusalem. The Pope called for a new crusade. The King of France, Louis IX, landed on the Egyptian coast and took the town of Damietta. On 20 November, the crusaders marched to Cairo. The two armies fight at Fariskour, near Mansoura. The Crusaders were defeated and the King of France is captured. The Egyptian Sultan as-Salih Ayyub was dead 23 November 1249. His wife, Chaddar ad-Dour, ensures the Regency. Once the Christian danger is distant, Turan Shah, son of as-Salih, is murdered. But a woman cannot rule in Muslim countries. To work around this situation, Chaddar ad-Dour married the emir Aybak and named him as Sultan. Aybak, by her depraved and violent conduct, becomes a problem. Chaddar ad-Dour assassinates him before suffering the same fate. The emirs are the most powerful of them, Kutuz, designate as Sultan in November 12, 1259. In autumn 1259, Hulegu, the khan of Central Asia resumed the offensive. In six months, the Syria is conquered. The way Egypt is free. But in the summer 1259 the great khan Mongka died. Hulegu leaves for the Mongolia. He leaves Kitbuga in command of his army. This one continued the offensive. In September 3, 1260, the two armies fight at Ain Jalut. Kitbuga was killed and the Mongolians flee. The Sultan Kutuz promised Aleppo to Baibars, hoping that he would be killed during the confrontation. After the battle, he gave the post to one of his followers. Baybars decided to kill him. In October 22, 1260, during a hunting party, he hands him an ambush and he give hom the first blow. His comrades finishe him. The present emirs proclaim Baybars as Sultan. He went immediately to Cairo, acclaimed by the people. During his years of reign, he leads a merciless combat to his enemies, Christians, Turks, Mongolian. He will make of Egypt and Syria, an Empire. The Empire of the Crowned Slaves which will reign on the Middle East until 1520. Baibars died aged 56 after 17 years of reign.

Author : Y. Erdem
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023037297X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in the Ottoman Empire and its Demise 1800-1909 written by Y. Erdem and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study bridges the gap that exists between studies dedicated to the history of slavery in the Western and Islamic worlds. It sets itself the goal of understanding how slavery persisted and then met its end in the Ottoman Empire. It concentrates on the period between 1800-1909 and examines the policies of the Ottoman state regarding slavery both before and after the reform period known as the Tanzimat. It also looks at the British involvement in the issue.