Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman admiral Selman

This 2005 book looks at domestic life and the place of women in the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery acr

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

From the days before Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was one of the last regions to renounce s