Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

Name: Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
ISBN: 9781108470513

Jeff Eden

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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.

Категорії:

History - Asian History

Рік:

2018

Видання:

Hardcover

Видавництво:

Cambridge University Press

Мова:

english

Сторінки:

240