In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia. Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experience. The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted-or not-the legacy of the slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas faced by slaves in the nineteenth century.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804788649
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183985895
Product Key Features
Author
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Publication Name
Tell this in Mymemory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
363g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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