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One of the important campaigns against Ottoman slavery and slave trade was conducted in the Caucasus by the Russian authorities. [122] A series of decrees were promulgated that initially limited the slavery of white persons, and subsequently that of all races and religions. The Firman of 1830 of Sultan Mahmud II gave freedom to white slaves.
Some captive slaves get good, gentle, or in-between masters, but some unfortunates find themselves with savage, cruel, hardhearted tyrants, who never stop treating them badly, and who force them to labour and toil with scanty clothing and little food, bound in iron fetters, from morning till night."
Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe were the slave raids, for over three centuries, conducted by the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde primarily in lands controlled by Russia [b] and Poland-Lithuania [c] as well as other territories, often under the sponsorship of the Ottoman Empire, which provided slaves for the Crimean and Ottoman slave trades.
The Ottoman Empire practiced the Islamic Law, which allowed Muslims to enslave war captives. During the Greek War of Independence, many Greek men, women and children had been captured and sold as slaves in Ottoman slave markets. One such incident was the Chios massacre of 1822. This had caused great indignation in Europe on behalf of the ...
High-ranking Ottoman officials were typically ransomed directly by the sultanate, and Macuncuzade petitioned the Valide sultan Safiye in this regard. His ransom of 500 gold florins was paid in late 1599, and it is possible that Macuncuzade's slave was released by the Hospitallers in exchange for a Christian slave. After securing his freedom ...
It was one of the reforms representing the process of official abolition of slavery in the Ottoman Empire, including the Firman of 1830, Disestablishment of the Istanbul Slave Market (1847), Suppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf (1847), the Prohibition of the Circassian and Georgian slave trade (1854–1855), Prohibition of the Black Slave Trade (1857), and the Anglo-Ottoman ...
Slavery was a significant part of the Ottoman Empire's economy. Slaves were supplied from Europe via the Barbary slave trade , the Crimean slave trade and the Circassian slave trade ; and from Africa via the Trans-Saharan slave trade , the Red Sea slave trade and the Indian Ocean slave trade .
Avret Pazarları [lb 1] (Ottoman Turkish: عورة پازار, romanized: Avret Pazarları), or female slave bazaar, [3] was a market of female slaves located in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey), operating from the mid-15th century to the early 20th century. [4]