The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . xi List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . xxi List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . xxv Notes on Transliteration . . . . . . . . . xxvii Notes on Currency . . . . . . . . . . . xxix Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. The Slave Trade from the Ottoman Period . . . . . 10 2. Reforms and Foreign Trade, 1759–1814 . . . . . . 25 3. Changing Patterns of the Slave Trade, 1759–1814 . . . 35 4. The Slave Trade during European Domination of the Mediterranean, 1815–1841 . . . . . . . 51 5. The Road to Abolition . . . . . . . . . . 74 6. Final Abolition, 1846 . . . . . . . . . . 96 7. The Aftermath of Abolition, 1846–1855 . . . . . 115 Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Appendix A: The Tunisian Trans-Saharan Slave Trade and the Traffic across the Mediterranean . . . . . 138 Appendix B: The Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1841–1845 . 145 Appendix C: The Final Abolition of Slavery, 1846 . . . 154 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 ...