Serving the master : slavery and society in nineteenth-century Morocco /
Ennaji, Mohammed.
Serving the master : slavery and society in nineteenth-century Morocco / Slavery and society in nineteenth-century Morocco Mohammed Ennaji ; translated by Seth Graebner. - Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999, �1998. - xxii, 166 pages, 1 map ; 22 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Slaves in Society -- Daily Life -- Family and Sexuality -- Escape * Emancipation -- Kidnapping -- Enslavement -- The Makhzen's Slaves -- Abolition.
Serving the Master uses a unique wealth of hitherto unstudied sources to paint a practical, compelling picture of the experiences of slaves in nineteenth-century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji brings to life a rich panoply of figures, with court cases, travel accounts, and archival documents, demonstrating the cruelty of an institution whose benign features some writers have overemphasized. In contrast to slavery in the Americas, he argues that only a fine line separated the fluid categories of slave and free, and he reveals how slaves' dependence on their masters paralleled free Moroccans' dependence on patrons for survival and social mobility. No other book on slavery in the Islamic world has treated the Muslim west, and no other book has examined the variety and extent of sources that Ennaji does in such a context here. Muslim Slavery offers a clear, readable history that tells the devastating story of slavery in this region, and uses slavery's gradual disappearance in this century as a metaphor for Morocco's move into modernity.
Translation of: Soldats, domestiques et concubines.
0333754778 9780333754771
GB99Z7856 bnb
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Slavery--History--Morocco--19th century.
Concubinage--History--Morocco--19th century.
Manners and customs.
Slavery.
Morocco--Social life and customs--19th century.
History.
HT1346 / E6
Serving the master : slavery and society in nineteenth-century Morocco / Slavery and society in nineteenth-century Morocco Mohammed Ennaji ; translated by Seth Graebner. - Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999, �1998. - xxii, 166 pages, 1 map ; 22 cm
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Slaves in Society -- Daily Life -- Family and Sexuality -- Escape * Emancipation -- Kidnapping -- Enslavement -- The Makhzen's Slaves -- Abolition.
Serving the Master uses a unique wealth of hitherto unstudied sources to paint a practical, compelling picture of the experiences of slaves in nineteenth-century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji brings to life a rich panoply of figures, with court cases, travel accounts, and archival documents, demonstrating the cruelty of an institution whose benign features some writers have overemphasized. In contrast to slavery in the Americas, he argues that only a fine line separated the fluid categories of slave and free, and he reveals how slaves' dependence on their masters paralleled free Moroccans' dependence on patrons for survival and social mobility. No other book on slavery in the Islamic world has treated the Muslim west, and no other book has examined the variety and extent of sources that Ennaji does in such a context here. Muslim Slavery offers a clear, readable history that tells the devastating story of slavery in this region, and uses slavery's gradual disappearance in this century as a metaphor for Morocco's move into modernity.
Translation of: Soldats, domestiques et concubines.
0333754778 9780333754771
GB99Z7856 bnb
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1900.
Slavery--History--Morocco--19th century.
Concubinage--History--Morocco--19th century.
Manners and customs.
Slavery.
Morocco--Social life and customs--19th century.
History.
HT1346 / E6