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As a teenager, my immediate reaction when listening to this story for the first time was revultion. My perspective on slavery had been limited to building pyramids, Roman gladiators and antebellum cotton plantations. Suddenly slavery had taken a sharp turn closer to me. Afterall the person telling the story was an elderly relative, two generations removed from me.
My early schooling did an effective job of communicating the horrors of slavery, expecially African-American, and this resulted...
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A week after purchase, the girls arrived in Trabzon in a group that included a few others acquired in other mountainous villages in the Khanate of Erivan. Their lives as slaves began in ernest during the several weeks it took the slave trader to acquire the additional slaves necessary to make the boat transport to Istanbul economical.
The waiting was spent in a house near Trabzon's slave market. Other slaves from the Caucasian region trickled in and one or two slaves were sold prior to th...
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Reflecting on Trabzon from today's perspective
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As a teenager, my immediate reaction when listening to this story for the first time was revultion. My perspective on slavery had been limited to building pyramids, Roman gladiators and antebellum cotton plantations. Suddenly slavery had taken a s...
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Transport to Trabzon
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A week after purchase, the girls arrived in Trabzon in a group that included a few others acquired in other mountainous villages in the Khanate of Erivan. Their lives as slaves began in ernest during the several weeks it took the slave trader to a...
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The trader arrives...not necessarily a bad thing
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Life was very difficult for people living in the Khanate of Erivan (today, the Northeast corner of modern Turkey) in the late 19th century. A combination of administrative ineptitude and coruption had rendered Ottoman rule worse than no rule at al...
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My Personal Connection to Slavery in Istanbul
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My material ancestors originated in what is now Eastern Turkey and Southern Georgia. Over many generations during the Ottoman era, members of my ancestral family were often enslaved. The last such person was my great aunt, the younger sister of my...
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