Slaves Holding Slaves: Milkeztebe Contracts, Velez and a Probate Inventory in the Seventeenth-Century Crimean Khanate

YAŞA F.

JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT, cilt.67, sa.1-2, ss.133-160, 2024 (AHCI, SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 67 Sayı: 1-2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1163/15685209-12341616
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ORIENT
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ATLA Religion Database, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.133-160
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article aims to reveal some aspects of relationships between former slaves and their ex-owners in light of seventeenth-century Crimean qadi court records. It elaborates on a number of terms that indicate the social and legal status of slaves in the Crimean Khanate and analyzes a former slave probate inventory. In addition, the paper also examines the phenomenon of the m & uuml;k & aacute;tebe contract in the Crimean Khanate context which allowed slaves to hold slaves; it thus seeks to provide new perspectives on the exercising of the miikdtebe. The paper considers how social fluidity affected the lives of slaves, explores the question of whether manumitted slaves actually attained the same status as the freeborn, and, finally, traces the ways in which dependency relationships evolved between freed former slaves and the slaves held by these latter.