Lives in Pieces: Female Slaves and Mobility in Early Modern Istanbul
Journal: V&R unipress eBooks
Year: 2023

This chapter examines the role of mobility in the lives of female slaves living in sixteenthand seventeenth-century Istanbul.The investigation will show that different stages in the lives of female slaves were strongly characterized by mobility, both spatially and socially.Usingamicro-level historicalanalysis and focusing on female slaves working in domestic households, this chapter examines cases from Istanbul courtr ecords.In contrast to an analysis of individual biographies, such acollectiveb