Title That most precious merchandise : the Mediterranean trade in Black Sea slaves, 1260-1500 / Hannah Barker

Edition First edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Middle Ages series Middle Ages series Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Slavery in the Late Medieval Mediterranean -- Chapter 2. Difference and the Perception of Slave Status -- Chapter 3. Societies with Slaves: Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk Sultanate -- Chapter 4. The Slave Market and the Act of Sale -- Chapter 5. Making Slaves in the Black Sea -- Chapter 6. Constraining Disorder: Merchants, States, and the Structure of the Slave Trade -- Chapter 7. Crusade, Embargo, and the Trade in Mamluk Slaves -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Hannah Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate Analysis European History History Medieval and Renaissance Studies World History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Slave trade -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 Slavery -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 HISTORY -- Medieval. Slave trade Slavery Slave trade -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500. Slavery -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500. Mediterranean Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812296488 0812296486

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