Slaves from the North

Finns and Karelians in the East European Slave Trade, 900-1600
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37780-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Slavery

In this book Jukka Korpela offers an analysis of the trade in kidnapped Finns and Karelians into slavery in Eastern Europe. Blond slaves from the north of Europe were rare luxury items in Black Sea and Caspian markets, and the high prices they commanded stimulated and sustained a long-distance trade based on kidnapping in special robbery missions and war expeditions. Captives were sold into the Volga slave trade and transported through market webs further south. This business differed and was separate from the large-scale raids carried out on Crimeans for enslavement in Eastern Europe, or the mass kidnappings characteristic of Mediterranean slavery. The trade in Finns and Karelians provides new perspectives on the formation of the Russian state as well as the economic networks of official and unofficial markets in Eastern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Korpela, Jukka Jari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Über Autor(innen)

Jukka Korpela, Ph.D. (1957), Professor of History at the University of Eastern Finland. He has published ten monographs and more than 150 scientific articles, including Prince Saint and Apostle (Otto Harrassowitz, 2001) and The World of Ladoga (LIT Verlag, 2008).