Slavery and empire in Central Asia / Jeff Eden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eden, Jeff, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Asia, Central--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Slave trade--Asia, Central--History--19th century.

Slave trade.

History.

Central Asia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central Asia's relations with Russia, England, and Iran, and would serve as a major justification for the Russian conquest of this region in the 1860s-70s. Challenging the consensus that the Russian Empire abolished slavery with these conquests, Eden uses these documents to reveal that it was the slaves themselves who brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region's history.

Contents:

The setting: Russia, Iran, and the slaves of the Khanates

Beyond the bazaars: geographies of the slave trade in Central Asia

From despair to liberation: Mirza Mahmud Taq Ashtiyan's ten years of slavery

The slaves' world: jobs, roles and families

From slaves to serfs: manumission along the Kazakh frontier

The Khan as Russian agent: native informants and abolition

The conquest of Khiva and the myth of Russian abolitionism in Central Asia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108470513

1108470513

OCLC:

1019998797