SLAVES TO WAR.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ali, Adam
- Source
- History Today. Aug2019, Vol. 69 Issue 8, p28-41. 14p.
- Subject
- *ENSLAVED military personnel
*OTTOMAN Empire
*TURKIC peoples
*SOCIAL mobility
*HISTORY
- Language
- ISSN
- 0018-2753
The article reports on the military slaves of the Islamic and Ottoman empires. It mentions the various sources of slaves including the preferred Turkic peoples, the social mobility of individual members of the armies, and the pros and cons of using military slaves.