Enslaved North Africans in Europe and their role in shaping the Ottoman empire (1750sā€“1810s)

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dc.contributor.authorOUALDI, M'Hamed
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-03T11:36:51Z
dc.date.available2025-02-03T11:36:51Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis essay builds on letters and petitions that enslaved North Africans in Europe conceived, signed, or wrote in various European languages, in Arabic, and to a lesser extent in Ottoman Turkish from the second half of the eighteenth century up to the 1810s, when this specific form of enslavement in the Mediterranean slowly declined. Situated between various Mediterranean cultures of petitioning, these ego-documents are essential to understanding how enslaved Muslims from the Ottoman Maghrib were engaged in reshaping Ottoman provincial authorities as well as redefining major connections between Ottoman North Africa and Europe and how they never ceased to build local Islamic communities in European seaports. This last expression of Islamic belonging went against European categorizations that tended to divide North African and Ottoman captives into two separate groups: Turks and Moors. European powers such as France reused these dividing categories in the nineteenth century to undertake their colonial projects.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the project SlaveVoices: 'Slave Testimonies in the Abolition Era. European Captives, African Slaves and Ottoman servants in 19th century North Africa' financed by the European Research Council under the grant agreement 819353en
dc.identifier.citationOttoman and Turkish studies association journal, 2024, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 39-55en
dc.identifier.doi10.2979/tur.00021
dc.identifier.endpage55en
dc.identifier.issn2376-0699
dc.identifier.issn2376-0702
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.startpage39en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/77933
dc.identifier.volume11en
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.publisherIndiana University Pressen
dc.relationSlave Testimonies in the Abolition Era. European Captives, African Slaves and Ottoman servants in 19th century North Africa
dc.relation.ispartofOttoman and Turkish studies association journalen
dc.titleEnslaved North Africans in Europe and their role in shaping the Ottoman empire (1750sā€“1810s)en
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