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A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars...



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Blumenthal offer a highly detailed reconstruction of slave experience at a crucial time and place: fifteenth-century Valencia.... This clearly organized and well-written book opens with a close look at how persons became enslaved.... The bulk of the book is devoted to the social and economic dimensions of slave life: the sorts of work sales engaged in, their activities and roles with their masters' households—including the sexual exploitation of women—and the limited but very real means by which they could hope to obtain and retain their freedom.... [It is] a singularly vivid reconstruction of the rhythms of everyday life at the lower levels of a late medieval city.

-- James S. Amelang * American Historical Review *

Enemies and Familiars Slavery and Mastery in

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 16 April 2009
      ISBN-13 9780801445026
      978-0801445026
      ISBN-10 0801445027
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars...



      Trade Review

      Blumenthal offer a highly detailed reconstruction of slave experience at a crucial time and place: fifteenth-century Valencia.... This clearly organized and well-written book opens with a close look at how persons became enslaved.... The bulk of the book is devoted to the social and economic dimensions of slave life: the sorts of work sales engaged in, their activities and roles with their masters' households—including the sexual exploitation of women—and the limited but very real means by which they could hope to obtain and retain their freedom.... [It is] a singularly vivid reconstruction of the rhythms of everyday life at the lower levels of a late medieval city.

      -- James S. Amelang * American Historical Review *

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