Tell this in my memory : stories of enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire / Eve M. Troutt Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Eve Troutt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Egypt--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Egypt--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--Sudan--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons--Sudan--History--19th century.

Slavery--Turkey--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons--Turkey--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia.Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the

Contents:

Prologue : 'abid : a word with a long history

Public workers, private properties: slaves in 'Ali Mubarak's historical records

Babikr Bedri's long march with authority

How Salim C. Wilson wrote his own enslavement

Huda and Halide and the slaves at bedtime

Black mothers and fathers, sanctified by slavery

The country of Saint Josephine Bakhita

Epilogue : laws of return.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804783750

0804783756

OCLC:

820123093