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White Slaves: The Last Voices

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Beginning in the 11th century, thousands of white slaves—Circassians, Abkhazians, Georgians, and Slavs—were transported from borderlands to the Ottoman Empire, and then on to Europe. For a millennium, white slavery was a crucial factor shaping the social, political, and military history of the peoples and states of Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Black Sea region. Elbruz Aksoy's book reinterprets the phenomenon of white slaves. The author traces the transnational historical narratives linking serfdom in Tsarist Russia, slavery in the late Ottoman Empire, the humanitarian consequences of the clash between these two empires in the borderlands, and the complex political and economic realities that emerged during the Caucasian War. The goal of his research is to shed light on the transformation of white slavery in the 19th and 20th centuries, when and how it disappeared, and how it is reflected in the family memory of living descendants of white slaves. Elbruz Aksoy is a historian and doctoral student in the Department of History at Ghent University in Belgium.
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