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Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire

Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Eve M. Troutt PowellPublish date:2013-08-25Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804788649ISBN-10:804788642UPC:9780804788649Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, Modern, SlaveryBook Topic:East, 19th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCY9MW4C0D
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804788649ISBN-10:804788642UPC:9780804788649Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, Modern, SlaveryBook Topic:East, 19th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCY9MW4C0D
Eve M. Troutt Powell is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan (2003). In 2003, she was a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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