Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Title | Slavery and Empire in Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Eden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108470513 |
Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Title | Slavery and Empire in Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Eden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2018-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108580904 |
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.
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
Title | Slavery and Empire in Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Eric Eden |
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Release | 2016 |
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While previous studies of slavery in the Muslim world have emphasized the role of colonial governments in fostering abolition, I argue that slaves in Central Asia, by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region's history, triggered the abolition of slavery in the region as a whole.
Slavery and South Asian History
Title | Slavery and South Asian History PDF eBook |
Author | Indrani Chatterjee |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2006-10-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253116716 |
"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible. Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker.
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Title | The Russian Conquest of Central Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Morrison |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 641 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107030307 |
A comprehensive diplomatic and military history of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, spanning the whole of the nineteenth century.
Saltwater Slavery
Title | Saltwater Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674043770 |
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.
Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico
Title | Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Tatiana Seijas |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107063124 |
This book is a history of Asian slaves in colonial Mexico and their journey from bondage to freedom.