Slavery and Servitude in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Slavery and Servitude in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Episode 362
with M’hamed Oualdi & Hayri Gökşin Özkoray hosted by Andreas Guidi
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Our latest podcast in collaboration with The Southeast Passage examines how slavery flourished in the Ottoman Mediterranean in the wake of growing connectivity with other world regions and territorial expansion. The discussion draws out the ambiguity between slavery and servitude in the case of the Mamluks of the Tunisian Beylik during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Which economic processes, legal interpretations, and geographic routes impacted the evolution of the slave trade from the sixteenth century until its abolition? What are the possibilities for and problems in retracing the self-narratives of those directly involved in the slave trade?
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