Slavery in the Middle East - Professor Thomas Otte

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Thomas Otte is Professor of Diplomatic History at the University of East Anglia. He teaches the history of modern war and conflict, military intervention and diplomacy, and British and European history, c. 1650-2000. Thomas is the author or editor of some twenty-one books, among them July Crisis: How the World Descended into War, Summer 1914 (CUP, 2014), and, most recently, Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey (Allen Lane, 2020). He has been an adviser to the Foreign Office and is elected Councillor of the Royal Historical Society.

00:00 - Introduction
02:20 - Lecture
01:01:44 - Q&A
01:02:40 - Did any Ottoman Sultan ever officially condemn the slave trade?
01:03:23 - Was most of Western pressure to reform just about the slave trade?
01:06:14 - How was white slavery perceived?
01:08:32 - What was the timeline of slavery being banned in the Middle East
01:09:30 - Was there compensation paid for people in the Middle East?
01:10:45 - How was British policy regarded by other major powers?
01:12:54 - Was the Berlin Congress anti-slavery convention driven by the British?
01:13:58 - Was there concern in Britain about the use of compulsory labour to construct the Suez Canal?
01:16:20 - Was it sensible for Britain to try to stop the demand rather than supply?
01:18:19 - What proportion of trade was over land rather than over sea?
01:22:14 - Conclusion

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