1st Edition
A Spectrum of Unfreedom Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
By Leslie Peirce
Copyright 2021
134 Pages
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Central European University Press
Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searches for the voices of the unfree, drawing on archives, histories written at the time, and legal texts. Unfree persons comprised two general populations: slaves and captives. Mostly household workers,... Read more
Preface, Chapter One: An Overview of Ottoman Slavery, Chapter Two: Captives and Their Captors, Chapter Three: Voices of Captivity: Legend, Histories, and Legal Texts, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Leslie Peirce has taught at Cornell, Berkeley, and New York University.
