Panelists:
Jeff Eden, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Moderator: Ahmad Sikainga, Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Presenter: Jeff Eden
Presentation: "How Persian Slaves Freed Themselves in Nineteenth-Century Central Asia: Two Case-Studies of Emancipation"
Presentation Abstract: When the Russian Empire conquered Central Asia in the 1860s-1870s, the conquest was hailed across Europe as the event that ended Central Asia’s vast slave trade and liberated its slaves– a claim that has rarely, if ever, been challenged by historians. In this presentation, Jeff Eden challenges that claim through two dramatic case studies. The first case study shows how, on the eve of Russia’s conquest of the capital city of Khiva in 1873, the city’s slaves fomented the largest slave uprisregion’sing in the history, which prompted the abolition of slavery throughout Central Asia. The second case study reveals what happened to former slaves who escaped their Central Asian owners, fled to the Russian border, and sought protection from the purportedly “abolitionist” Tsar--only to find a surprising fate awaiting them.
Presenter: Sun Joo Kim
Presentation Abstract: TBA
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