Reddit mentions of Ottoman Women

Okay.. (and maybe instead of down-voting me, you could actually respond intelligently?)

European Slaves in the Ottoman Empire -- Journal of African Studies

Link is below:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4100570?searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dottoman%2Bslaves%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&Search=yes&searchText=slaves&searchText=ottoman&uid=3739560&uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21102100526113

But why stop there?

Read

"Late Ottoman Concepts of Slavery (1830s-1880s)
Ehud R. Toledano
Poetics Today
Vol. 14, No. 3, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Modern Period I (Autumn, 1993), pp. 477-506

and


Masters, Their Freed Slaves, and the Waqf in Egypt (Eighteenth-Twentieth Centuries)
Ron Shaham
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Vol. 43, No. 2 (2000), pp. 162-188

and


Black Slaves and Free Blacks in Ottoman Cyprus, 1590-1640
Ronald C. Jennings
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Vol. 30, No. 3 (1987), pp. 286-302

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I looked at your post history. You clearly have an agenda and this agenda does not seem to concern itself with reality.

Ottoman judicial court reports give us many examples of women slaves refusing their masters and being granted freedom. A woman in Islam, even a slave, was not a mindless fucktoy. There were many laws in place.

Read this book if you want an introduction to Ottoman Women:

http://www.amazon.com/Ottoman-Women-Asli-Sancar/dp/1597841153

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Plus, all white slaves were granted freedom after 7 years and black slaves were granted freedom after 9 years. No matter what. The children of a slave were not slaves. Slaves could not be killed or raped. Slaves could convert to Islam and be granted automatic freedom.

Even Sultans have been reported as being refused by a concubine. A concubine was not a sex slave that the Western imagination thought of her as. It was an important bureaucratic position, meant to educate and train future wives of generals and bureaucrats. They chose who they married and could not be forced into a marriage.