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Ethiopia stated to the Temporary Slavery Commission (1923–1925) that while slavery in Ethiopia was still legal, it was in a process of being phased out: that the slave trade was dying, that it was prohibited to sale, gift or will slaves, and that every child born to a slave after 1924 will be born free; that former slaves were to be sent back ...
During the Armenian genocide between 1915 and 1917, Armenian women and children were being displayed naked in Damascus in Ottoman Syria and sold at the slave market. [147] At the end of the Ottoman Empire, chattel slavery was still tolerated by the Ottoman authorities in most provinces. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ended legal slavery in the Turkish ...
Sale of a child-slave (1872), painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. A rich Turkish man examines a naked boy, before buying him. The history of slavery in the Muslim world was throughout the history of Islam with slaves serving in various social and economic roles, from powerful emirs to harshly
The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, [1] Arab slave trade, [1] or Oriental slave trade, [1] was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking Africans from the African continent to slavery in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East from antiquity until the mid-20th century.
The Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan was a major military and technical feat. Fewer than 10,000 men set off from Egypt, [1] [3] but, with some local assistance, they were able to penetrate 1,500 km up the Nile River to the frontiers of Ethiopia, giving Egypt an empire as large as Western Europe.
One year later the Ottomans occupied Sawakin, [29] which beforehand was associated with Sennar. [30] It seems that to counter the Ottoman expansion in the Red Sea region, the Funj engaged in an alliance with Ethiopia. Besides camels the Funj are known to have exported horses to Ethiopia, which were then used in war against the Adal Sultanate. [31]
The Ottoman invasion of the Ethiopian Empire was crushed by the Emperor Sarsa Dengel at the battle of Addi Qarro, where the Ottoman commander Ahmad Pasha was killed. [11] [12] Mogadishu recognised Ottoman suzerainty in 1585, and Ali Bey also established Ottoman supremacy in other regions such as Brava, Mombasa, Kilifi, Pate, Lamu and Faza.
Image of a 17th-century Kizlar Agha, from the Rålamb Book of Costumes. The kizlar agha (Ottoman Turkish: قيزلر اغاسی, Turkish: kızlar ağası, lit. ' "agha of the girls" '), formally the agha of the House of Felicity (Ottoman Turkish: دار السعاده اغاسي, Turkish: Darüssaade Ağası), [1] was the head of the eunuchs who guarded the Ottoman Imperial Harem in ...