The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression : 1840-1890 / Ehud R. Toledano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toledano, Ehud R., author.

Series:

Princeton Studies on the Near East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--History.

Slavery--Turkey--History.

Slave-trade--Turkey--History--19th century.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Local Subjects:

Antislavery movements--History.

Slavery--Turkey--History.

Slave-trade--Turkey--History--19th century.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

LIST OF MAPS

NOTES

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. From Source to Market- The Ottoman Slave-Trading Network in the Nineteenth Century

CHAPTER II. The Economics and Volume of the Ottoman Traffic

CHAPTER III. The Road to Prohibition- Anglo-Ottoman Contacts Regarding the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1840-1855

CHAPTER IV. Prohibition and Resignation- The African Versus the Caucasian Traffic in the Late 1850s

CHAPTER V. Circassian Slavery and Slave Trade- an Ottoman Solution

CHAPTER VI. Between Prohibition and Convention- The African Slave Trade to the Ottoman Empire, 1857-1877

CHAPTER VII. Anti-Slave Trade Conventions and the Decline of the African Traffic, 1877-1890

CHAPTER VIII. Some General Aspects of British Pressure and Ottoman Reaction

EPILOGUE

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400857234

1400857236

OCLC:

979968659