Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Ehud R. Toledano -- Introduction -- Felicia Roșu -- Part I: The Italian Phase -- 1. Black Sea Slavery in Genoese Notarial Sources, 13th-15th Centuries -- Michel Balard -- 2. Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian Notarial Sources, 14th-15th Centuries -- Sergei Karpov -- Part II: Slavery and Christianity -- 3. The Role of Slaves in the Byzantine Economy, 10th-11th Centuries: Legal Aspects -- Daphne Penna -- 4. Christian Slave Traders, Slave Owners, and Slaves in the 13th-15th Centuries -- Sandra Origone -- 5. The Orthodox Church and the Emancipation of Gypsy Slaves in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century -- Viorel Achim -- Part III: Raiders and Captives on the Northern Shore -- 6. "It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain": Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475-1774 -- Mikhail Kizilov -- 7. How Captives Were Taken: The Making of Tatar Slaving Raids in the Early Modern Period -- Andrzej Gliwa -- 8. Captive-Taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and Unfreedom in the Northern Countries -- Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk -- Part IV: The Circassian Question -- 9. What Caused the 14th-Century Tatar-Circassian Shift? -- Hannah Barker -- 10. Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim Warriors? The Status of Circassians in the Early Modern Period -- Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska -- Part V: The Black Sea and Global Slavery -- 11. People-Taking across the Mediterranean Maritime Frontier, 1675-1714 -- Colin Heywood -- 12. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea: A Comparative View -- Dariusz Kołodziejczyk -- Index.

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.

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