The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia
ISBN: 9780813048420
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Middle East Studies ; Sociology;

In this groundbreaking work, Ismael Montana fully explicates the complexity of Tunisian society and culture and reveals how abolition was able to occur in an environment hostile to such change. Moving beyond typical slave trade studies, he departs from the traditional regional paradigms that isolate slavery in North Africa from its global dynamics to examine the trans-Saharan slave trade in a broader historical context. The result is a study that reveals how European capitalism, political pressure, and evolving social dynamics throughout the western Mediterranean region helped shape this seismic cultural event.


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