Description: Examines the essential role of captive and slave labor in maintaining Ottoman empire strength in early modern times, focusing on Anatolia and drawing on archives, contemporary histories, and legal texts to search for the voices of the unfree, including household slaves living in varied circumstances from squalor to luxury.
Brief description: Leslie Peirce is Silver Professor and Professor Emerita of History at New York University.
Review Quotes: "By choosing an overarching term as a criterion for investigation and giving attention to other categories of unfree people beyond slaves, the author can include individuals who would otherwise have fallen outside the scope of the study. This provides the reader a much broader picture of slaves and others in bondage and shows the range and diversity of forms of slavery and captivity that existed in all areas of the Ottoman Empire, urban and rural, elite and non-elite. In short, this small book is a useful introduction to the subject of slavery and captivity in the Ottoman Empire, provides a useful overview of its characteristics, and presents interesting directions for further research."
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