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Slavery In The Ottoman EmpireTarih
"First of all, we must understand that Turkish slavery did not in the least resemble the slavery Europeans were simul-taneously imposing upon plantation field workers in the New World, nor in most cases was it as onerous as the serfdom fastened upon the peasantries of eastern Europe in the same age. The comparatively mild character of Turkish slavery was due to the fact that slaves were not valued primarily for the economic usefulness of their labor. Slaves were used in-stead to satisfy the desire of upstart Ottoman notables (often slaves themselves) to accumulate a large household of attend-ants, thus attesting their own personal greatness. Competitive conspicuous display of enormous slave trains knew no in-trinsic limit. Moreover, since a numerous, well-equipped and loyal slave household helped to assure a great man's per-sonal safety, precautionary considerations impelled every Turkish magnate to treat his slaves with at least a modicum of generosity and kindness.
Slaves in Ottoman society, therefore, were primarily per-sonal servants and bodyguards. Slave women also regularly played the role of concubine, and mothered the heirs of the Turkish ruling class. The sultan himself was the son of a slave mother. It followed that insofar as great dignitaries directed the affairs of Ottoman society and in matters of statecraft and war they played the dominant role-they did so through their slave households. This meant, in turn, that slaves managed important facets of Ottoman life."
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