Slavery in the Ottoman Empire lasted until roughly 1910s and 1920s (it had been on the decline for many years, but was not totally eliminated until 1930).
Slavery basically existed in every single human culture around the world and throughout human history. It took modern European and Christian morality to eliminate slavery and eliminate it throughout the entire world.
I would love a mini series that would explore non western slavery but it would never happen. So many in the west think America and England invented slavery. You also have recorded interviews from the early 1900s with former slaves but I don’t think anything like that exists for slaves in Africa or any other part of the world
That's a really fascinating idea! Too bad it's probably too late to reach most of those people.
I knew a girl who was Turkish who studying in the US in college. She was PROUD of the fact that her grandfather had been a slave, because in Ottoman Turkey, many of the government officials were slaves. That's one way to keep the bureaucracy working efficiently--make them all the personal property of the Sultan!
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire lasted until roughly 1910s and 1920s (it had been on the decline for many years, but was not totally eliminated until 1930).
Slavery basically existed in every single human culture around the world and throughout human history. It took modern European and Christian morality to eliminate slavery and eliminate it throughout the entire world.
I would love a mini series that would explore non western slavery but it would never happen. So many in the west think America and England invented slavery. You also have recorded interviews from the early 1900s with former slaves but I don’t think anything like that exists for slaves in Africa or any other part of the world
That's a really fascinating idea! Too bad it's probably too late to reach most of those people.
I knew a girl who was Turkish who studying in the US in college. She was PROUD of the fact that her grandfather had been a slave, because in Ottoman Turkey, many of the government officials were slaves. That's one way to keep the bureaucracy working efficiently--make them all the personal property of the Sultan!
Great point