The Backyard of Slavery

Child and Adolescent Slaves

Bibliographic Data

ID21998338
AuthorsMustafa Akkaya (0000-0002-2694-4208, Adnan Menderes University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume9
Issue2
Pages467
Publication date2020-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of History Culture and Art Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2147-0626 • E-ISSN: 2147-0626
PublisherKarabuk University (PUBLISHER • TR)
DOI10.7596/taksad.v9i2.2420
OpenAlexW3041337927
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

Slavery is a phenomenon as old as the history of humanity. In the Ottomans era a non-free person called slave or captive. As in many societies, there is not only in ottoman society slavery adult but also children and this real undeniable. In the related literature, it is not so possible to find out studies on child slaves compared to the studies on adolescent slaves. Child slaves were also the tragic fact of history like adult slaves. The employment of child slaves and the sale of them as a trade product is another problem. The child of a married slave is born as a slave. For this reason, child slaves are as old as the history of slaves. Additionally, slaves captured in the wars or gained as booty were also enslaved. One-fifth of captives gained in the war were used in palaces or army by Ottoman on the rules kul system. The rest was distributed to the war participants or the ones who succeeded in the war. Thus, slavery turned into a form of meeting the need of the state, a commodity, a money prize, or a workforce in society

Ancient history · Archaeology · Homeland · Humanity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Families in Therapy and Culture · History · Law · Ottoman and Turkish Studies · Ottoman Empire History and Society

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