
- 326 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Notes on Transliteration and Pronunciation; On Dating; On Terminology
- Preface
- Introduction
- I: From Source to Market---The Ottoman Slave-Trading Network in the Nineteenth Century
- II: The Economics and Volume of the Ottoman Traffic
- III: The Road to Prohibitionâ Anglo-Ottoman Contacts Regarding the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1840-1855
- IV: Prohibition and ResignationâThe African Versus the Caucasian Traffic in the Late 1850s
- V: Circassian Slavery and Slave TradeâAn Ottoman Solution
- VI: Between Prohibition and Convention---The African Slave Trade to the Ottoman Empire, 1857-1877
- VII: Anti-Slave Trade Conventions and the Decline of the African Traffic, 1877-1890
- VIII: Some General Aspects of British Pressure and Ottoman Reaction
- Epilogue
- Bibliographical Note
- Selected Bibliography
- Index