A Healthy Nation? IN ancient Greece, slaves were forbidden from exercising so they didn’t get strong enough to revolt. Roman ...

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran: The Autobiography of Mahboob Qirvanian, published May 2 by University of Toronto Press. A trailblazing researcher in the study of ...

He then sold the 6,000 surviving women and children into slavery. The devastation to the island was so massive that it had to be repopulated by people from other parts of Greece and the Ottoman Empire ...

One is considered a national hero in Greece for helping in the liberation struggle from Ottoman slavery, while the other is remembered as the Turkish genocider of over two million Greeks, Armenians ...

“In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in ... artist and illustrator Daniel Minter that is furnished with leather ottomans, offering a space for contemplation and remembrance.

A Swedish court has sentenced a woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges for keeping Yazidi women and children as slaves at her home in Syria, in the country’s first court case over ...

they were victims of an age-old regional warfare which underpinned an equally ancient but persistent trade in slavery reaching across North and East Africa, the Ottoman Empire and eventually the ...

The Ottoman Empire and Slavery While the Christian denominations in the West played a significant role in the abolition of slavery, the Ottoman Empire also took steps to address the issue.

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 ...

AMMAN — Arab and Ottoman ruling elites and dynasties relied for centuries on the class of the slave-warriors called Mamluks, who were ethnically diverse and usually came from the Turkic, Caucasian, ...

Alan W. Fisher, in his 1978 work on Ottoman slavery, writes that slaves, including women and children, were bought and sold in the markets called sir pazan in most of the towns and cities.