The Tsar’s Abolitionists
The Slave Trade in the Caucasus and Its Suppression
Biographical note
Liubov Kurtynova-D'Herlugnan, Kandidat (1989) in History, Institute of African and Asian Studies, Moscow State University, Ph.D. (1997) in History, State University of New York, Binghamton, specializes in Middle Eastern
and Caucasian cultures. She is currently teaching courses on Russian history and modern Turkey at Northwestern University.
and Caucasian cultures. She is currently teaching courses on Russian history and modern Turkey at Northwestern University.
Readership
All those interested in the studies of empire-building, frontier studies, slavery and abolitionism, history of Russia, history of the Caucasus and of the Ottoman empire, women's studies.
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: the Caucasus, Geography and People
• Why was Slave Trade so Important for the Caucasian Societies
Chapter Two: Christians in Heterodox Captivity
• The Historical Roots of Russian Abolitionism in the Caucasus
• The Two Abolitionisms: The European Enterprise and a Distant Cousin from Russia
• Historical Myth and Mythical History: Muscovy and the Caucasus before the 18th Century
• The Beginning: First Attempts to Ban Slave Trade
Chapter Three: The Southern Caucasus
Chapter Four: The Northern Caucasus
Conclusion: Explaining an Unlikely Abolitionism
Bibliography
Index
Chapter One: the Caucasus, Geography and People
• Why was Slave Trade so Important for the Caucasian Societies
Chapter Two: Christians in Heterodox Captivity
• The Historical Roots of Russian Abolitionism in the Caucasus
• The Two Abolitionisms: The European Enterprise and a Distant Cousin from Russia
• Historical Myth and Mythical History: Muscovy and the Caucasus before the 18th Century
• The Beginning: First Attempts to Ban Slave Trade
Chapter Three: The Southern Caucasus
Chapter Four: The Northern Caucasus
Conclusion: Explaining an Unlikely Abolitionism
Bibliography
Index
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