A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa Oualdi MHamed
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa Oualdi MHamed In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis,…
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A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa Oualdi MHamed
In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a life crossing empires. In Tunis, he ascended to the rank of general before French conquest forced his exile to the northern shores of the Mediterranean. As a youth, Husayn was brought from Circassia to Turkey, where he was sold as a slave.
M'hamed Oualdi places Husayn within the international context of the His death was followed by wrangling over his estate that spanned a surprising array of actors: Ottoman Sultan Abd lhamid II and his viziers; the Tunisian, French, and Italian governments; and representatives of Muslim and Jewish diasporic communities.A Slave Between Empires investigates Husayn's transimperial life and the posthumous battle over his fortune to recover the transnational dimensions of North African history.
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