Some Islamic states, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, and the Sokoto caliphate [Nigeria], must be termed slave societies because slaves there were very important numerically as ...

The rest of the Ottoman Empire’s elite had to earn their ... But the imperial court left casualties behind, too: female slaves forced into sexual slavery as concubines; male slaves expected ...

Recent research by University of Cape Town (UCT) African Studies scholar Dr Halim Gençoglu and his former student Abdud-Daiyaan Petersen reveals a story of piracy, slavery and previously unknown ...

A few days back, I read comments of an Armenian journalist on the Internet that the Armenians under the Ottoman Empire lived as "slaves." Surely, this was only one of the accusations directed ...

White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed. Deciding that slavery was wrong was much easier than deciding what to do ...

mercenaries and slaves of European origin who converted to Islam and served the governors of the Ottoman province of Tunis from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Then, in 2020 he published Un Esclave ...

Some Islamic states, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, and the Sokoto caliphate [Nigeria], must be termed slave societies because slaves there were very important numerically as ...