Strangled By Connection: The Northwest Caucasus and the Making of Global Slavery, 1261-1475 Ghent University
Slave trades in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean played critical roles in constructing contemporary social and economic inequalities. However, these trades could not have functioned without the co-operation of indigenous elites, who furnished slave traders with the people necessary for slave systems to function. This project will examine this process in the Northwest Caucasus, which became the most important source of slaves in ...