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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Eden, Jeff

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1108470513
ISBN13: 9781108470513
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 19 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
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.

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