The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression: 1840-1890

by Ehud R. Toledano

Overview

This book is a historical account of the slave trading system of the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century and of the attempts, which were eventually successful, to suppress it.

Originally published in 1983.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691613932
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/14/2014
Series:	Princeton Studies on the Near East , #629
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. iii
• Contents, pg. vii
• LIST OF MAPS, pg. xi
• NOTES, pg. xiii
• PREFACE, pg. xvii
• INTRODUCTION, pg. 1
• CHAPTER I. From Source to Market— The Ottoman Slave-Trading Network in the Nineteenth Century, pg. 14
• CHAPTER II. The Economics and Volume of the Ottoman Traffic, pg. 55
• CHAPTER III. The Road to Prohibition— Anglo-Ottoman Contacts Regarding the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1840-1855, pg. 91
• CHAPTER IV. Prohibition and Resignation— The African Versus the Caucasian Traffic in the Late 1850s, pg. 124
• CHAPTER V. Circassian Slavery and Slave Trade— an Ottoman Solution, pg. 148
• CHAPTER VI. Between Prohibition and Convention— The African Slave Trade to the Ottoman Empire, 1857-1877, pg. 192
• CHAPTER VII. Anti-Slave Trade Conventions and the Decline of the African Traffic, 1877-1890, pg. 224
• CHAPTER VIII. Some General Aspects of British Pressure and Ottoman Reaction, pg. 249
• EPILOGUE, pg. 279
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, pg. 285
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 291
• INDEX, pg. 299