Slaveholding in the Ottoman Central Lands (1460–1880)

Abstract Using probate inventories from multiple locations in the Ottoman central lands, this article offers a quantitative perspective on long-term patterns of slaveholding, slave prices, and demand for slaves. Findings include continual decline slave-ownership related indicators across all social groups strata, prices connection with trafficking Africa eighteenth century. The investment preferences top buyers composition population also indicate that features slaves were neither fixed any period nor uniform regions.