Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Slavery in the Medieval Millennium
- Part I Captivity and the Slave Trade
- Chapter 2 The Greater Mediterranean Slave Trade
- Chapter 3 Captivity, Ransom, and Manumission, 500–1420
- Chapter 4 Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)
- Chapter 5 The Trade in Slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe
- Chapter 6 Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean World
- Part II Race, Sex, and Everyday Life
- Part III East and South Asia
- Part IV The Islamic World
- Part V Africa, the Americas, and Europe
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)
from Part I - Captivity and the Slave Trade
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 September 2021
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Slavery in the Medieval Millennium
- Part I Captivity and the Slave Trade
- Chapter 2 The Greater Mediterranean Slave Trade
- Chapter 3 Captivity, Ransom, and Manumission, 500–1420
- Chapter 4 Forced Migrations and Slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206–1368)
- Chapter 5 The Trade in Slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe
- Chapter 6 Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean World
- Part II Race, Sex, and Everyday Life
- Part III East and South Asia
- Part IV The Islamic World
- Part V Africa, the Americas, and Europe
- Index
- References
Summary
The Mongol Empire (1206-1368) had a tremendous impact on slavery across Eurasia. While slaves played a minor role in pre-Imperial Mongolia, the Mongols saw people as a resource, to be distributed among the imperial family and used for imperial needs, like material goods. This view created a whole spectrum of dependency running from free men to full slaves. More specifically, the huge conquests of the United Empire (1206-60) resulted in huge supply of war captives, many of whom eventually sold in the Eurasian slave markets. With the dissolution of the Empire and the halt of its expansion, the demand for slaves remained high, and other means were sought for supplying it. The chapter discusses slavery among the pre-imperial Mongols; the general context of slavery caused by Mongol mobilization and redistribution policies; the various ways of becoming a slave in the Mongol Empire; and the slaves’ dispersion, uses, conditions as well as manumission mechanisms and opportunities for social mobility. It highlights the different types of slavery (extrusive versus intrusive) in China and the Muslim and Christian worlds and argues that in Mongol Eurasia slavery was not always a social death.
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- The Cambridge World History of Slavery , pp. 76 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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