Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe

Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe

Between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Muslim men and women from the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean were forcibly transported to Western Europe. Those who were not ransomed or who did not return to their homelands as part of prisoner exchanges,...

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Main Author: Ariel Salzmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-09-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
slavery
migration
Enlightenment Europe
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/3/391
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Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
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migration
Enlightenment Europe
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title Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
title_short Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
title_full Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
title_fullStr Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
title_full_unstemmed Migrants in Chains: On the Enslavement of Muslims in Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe
title_sort migrants in chains: on the enslavement of muslims in renaissance and enlightenment europe
publisher MDPI AG
series Religions
issn 2077-1444
publishDate 2013-09-01
description Between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, hundreds of thousands of Muslim men and women from the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean were forcibly transported to Western Europe. Those who were not ransomed or who did not return to their homelands as part of prisoner exchanges, languished for decades and, many, for the remainder of their lives, in chattel slavery. This essay considers the enslavement process overall and the conceptual frameworks necessary to bring this poorly known chapter in European social history into focus. Emphasizing the case of the Muslim galley slaves of the Catholic ports of France, Italy and Malta, it argues that without appreciating this phenomenon as a form of migration, as well as part of a larger history of global slavery, it not possible to understand the specificity of confessionalized enslavement within the early modern Mediterranean.
topic slavery
migration
Enlightenment Europe
url http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/3/391
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