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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia

By Jeff Eden

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
1108470513, 9781108470513
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2339935 bytes)
Edition
Hardcover
Pages
240\242
Time added
2019-05-10 13:57:20

Description

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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