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The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression: 1840-1890

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Ehud R. Toledano
2014
Published by: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East
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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.

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Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

CONTENTS

pp. v-viii

LIST OF MAPS

pp. ix-x

NOTES

pp. xi-xiv

PREFACE

pp. xv-xx

INTRODUCTION

pp. 3-13

IFrom Source to Market—The Ottoman Slave-Trading Networkin the Nineteenth Century

pp. 14-54

IIThe Economics and Volumeof the Ottoman Traffic

pp. 55-90

IIIThe Road to Prohibition—Anglo-Ottoman Contacts Regardingthe Suppression of the Slave Trade,1840-1855

pp. 91-123

IVProhibition and Resignation—The African Versus the Caucasian Trafficin the Late 1850s

pp. 124-147

VCircassian Slavery and Slave Trade—an Ottoman Solution

pp. 148-191

VIBetween Prohibition and Convention—The African Slave Trade tothe Ottoman Empire, 1857-1877

pp. 192-223

VIIAnti-Slave Trade Conventions andthe Decline of the African Traffic,1877-1890

pp. 224-248

VIIISome General Aspectsof British Pressureand Ottoman Reaction

pp. 249-278

EPILOGUE

pp. 279-284

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

pp. 285-290

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

pp. 291-298

INDEX

pp. 299-307
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