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Slavery in Tunisia

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2248: 1950:, was charged with maintaining order among the groups and ruling on disputes which might arise between masters and slaves or among the slaves themselves. Records and accounts confirm the relative autonomy of organisation which was granted to the slaves of Tunis and the protection which the government extended to them, protection which reveals the government's acute awareness of the rules of good conduct and treatment of slaves prescribed by Islam. In effect, by protecting this minority, the government was assured of its unconditional loyalty, especially that of the guards of the Bey, who were recruited from the slaves. In addition to this politico-administrative arrangement, the slaves obviously had their own specific religious organisations as 2236: 66: 30: 2260: 1902:(a tax instituted in 1856), and therefore a good part of these groups, scattered through the various layers of society had escaped the system of control. The frequency of collective manumissions of black slaves at the death of a prince or princess reveals some important comparative numbers. In 1823, 177 slaves were manumitted at the death of a princess. Based on the figures provided by travellers, Ralph Austin established some averages, leading to a total estimate of 100,000 slaves. For his part, Louis Ferrière in a letter to 2303: 1824: 2112: 2224: 2284: 1968: 2212:
baths, domestic servants or simple criminals, easily nabbed by the municipal police for drunkenness or petty larceny. Up to 10% of prostitutes in Tunis are descended from former slaves. After abolition, then, a process of impoverishment and social marginalisation of the old slaves took place because enfranchisement had secured legal emancipation but not social freedom.
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and became free upon the death of their enslaver; the concubine of a Beduoin mainly lived the same life as the rest of the tribal members and the women of the family. Female domestic slaves lived a hard life and reproduction among slaves was low; it was noted that the infant mortality was high among
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offered an estimate of around 7,000 slaves or descendants of slaves in Tunisian in the year 1861, using registers which include lists of manumissions. However, such systematic records of the black population are not effective for several reasons: the abolition of slavery had occurred ten years before
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and several regions of the central West Africa. The names of slaves and freedmen reported in archival documents confirm these multiple, diverse origins: beside common names like Burnaoui, Ghdamsi and Ouargli, are names indicating origin in other centres of West Africa like Jennaoui and Tombouctaoui.
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Over the second half of the nineteenth century, the majority of the old slaves, male or female, formed an urban underclass, relying on their former masters or living in precarious circumstances (foundouks on the outskirts). Often they work as bread sellers, street merchants, masseurs in the Moorish
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The sources are unanimous about the heavy domestic character of slavery in Tunisia. In face the possession of slaves constituted a mark of nobility in Tunis and the almost universal possession of one or more slaves for domestic tasks attests to a pronounced tendency of contempt for physical work, a
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who advised him to ban the slave trade. Ahmed I was convinced of the necessity of this action; himself the son of a slave, he was considered open to progress and quick to act against all forms of fanaticism. He decided to ban the export of slaves the same day that he met with Reade. Proceeding in
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works. It was in the south of the country that slavery continued most prominently after its abolition in 1846 and into the twentieth century. Viviane Pâques relates similar phenomena, "At the oases, slaves were especially in use as domestic servants, for sinking wells and for digging canals. They
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and the region of Fezzan provided the majority of caravans. The greater part of the slaves were reduced to slavery in local wars between rival tribes or in abduction raids. Caravan routes from many Saharan centres terminated at Tunis. In addition to Ghadamès, which connected the beylik to Fezzan,
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Slavery in Tunisia responded mainly to the needs of the citizen society. However, study of the main businesses of the city of Tunis, which has been performed by many scholars, does not indicate concentrated use of slaves in labour-intensive sectors. The major traditional industries like weaving,
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on 28 May 1890. This decree promulgated financial sanctions (in the form of fines) and penal sanctions (in the form of imprisonment) for those who continued to engage in the slave trade or to keep slaves as servants. The colonial accounts tended to pass over the first abolition and focus on the
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in Tunis, estimated there were 167,000 slaves and freed slaves in 1848. Concerning European slaves, the number of women is difficult to determine. Some historians, like Robert C. Davis, estimate their number at around 10%, but these numbers are based on the redemption of slaves; it may simply
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on the coast of the European lands, mostly Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, and from the capture of European ships. The men were used for diverse tasks (slave drivers, public works, soldiers, public servant etc.), while women were used as domestic workers and in
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or leather continued to be reserved for the local workforce. Labour in these businesses was still performed by free people and one could not attribute slavery to economic needs. However, in the oases of southern Tunisia, groups of slaves were employed in
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indicate that women were rarely redeemed. This figure of 10% is especially dubious since the slaves acquired in coastal razzias were more numerous and in these razzias women constituted an average of five out of every eight people taken captive.
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According to Raëd Bader, based on estimates of the Trans-Saharan trade, between 1700 and 1880 Tunisia received 100,000 black slaves, compared to only 65,000 entering Algeria, 400,000 in Libya, 515,000 in Morocco and 800,000 in Egypt.
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In addition, as the French doctor and naturalist Jean-André Peyssonnel notes, Christian slaves of European origin who converted to Islam could rise to high positions - even to the chief offices of state, like the
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, slaves arrived annually in numbers ranging between 500 and 1,200. From Tunisia they were carried on to the ports of the
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Other slaves of European origin became corsairs themselves after converting to Islam and captured other European slaves (sometimes attacking their own hometowns).
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slaves, and that female slaves were often raped in their childhood and rarely lived in their forties, and that poorer slave owners often prostituted them.
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Maria Ghazali, « La régence de Tunis et l'esclavage en Méditerranée à la fin du XVIII siècle d'après les sources consulaires espagnoles »,
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traditional aristocratic characteristic. Some general practices in the Tunisian court contributed to entrench this tradition: the princes from the
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stages, he closed the slave market of Tunis in August and declared in December 1842 that everyone born in the country would thereafter be free.
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Further, the distribution of slaves across regions was not homogenous. In the southeast, the proportion was quite high (especially in the
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carried out in the middle of the nineteenth century allow some approximate conclusions about the number of slaves throughout the country.
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French translation of the decree of 23 January 1846 on the enfranchisement of slaves (Portal of Justice and Human rights in Tunisia)
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Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic. (2007). Grekland: Ohio University Press. p. 13
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Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic. (2007). Grekland: Ohio University Press. p. 13
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The social organisation of traditional Tunisian society offered a range of specific roles for slaves in Tunis. The
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Archives nationales de Tunisie, série historique, dossiers relatifs aux familles princières, document 58188
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Tunisian slaves derived from two principal zones: Europe and a large area stretching from West Africa to
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Original decree of 23 January 1846 on the enfranchisement of slaves (National archives of Tunisia)
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Esclavages et abolitions en terres d'islam. Tunisie, Arabie saoudite, Maroc, Mauritanie, Soudan
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La transformation des corps de métiers à Tunis sous l'effet d'une économie de type capitaliste
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Meyers, Allan R. (1977). "Class, Ethnicity, and Slavery: The Origins of the Moroccan 'Abid".
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L'arbre cosmique dans la pensée populaire et dans la vie quotidienne du nord-ouest africain
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and put the country in touch with African groups and peoples of a large zone touching the
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The Transaharian Slave Trade. Essays in the economic history of the Atlantic slave trade
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This resistance justified the second abolition announced by the French in a decree of
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Esclaves chrétiens. Maîtres musulmans. L'esclavage blanc en Méditerranée (1500-1800)
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Although quantitative data does not exist for the eighteenth century, some partial
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and they get a percentage of the harvest. But their workload remains the same..."
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was in regular contact with the Beylik via the caravan route which passed through
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La communauté noire de Tunis. Thérapie initiatique et rite de possession
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Abolition de l'esclavage en Tunisie à travers les archives. 1841-1846
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Female slaves were primarily used as either domestic servants, or as
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beys solely employed slaves as palace guards and servants in their
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European slaves, for their part, were captured in the course of
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the first records of the subject population were taken for the
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slave, or several ministers of the Husainid dynasty, such as
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have been, and still commonly are socially isolated in some
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Lehnert et Landrock - Marché d'esclave, Tunisie, circa 1910
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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worked from sunrise to sunset, getting only a plate of
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On 29 April 1841, Ahmed I Bey had an interview with
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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
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Index

Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia

Abolition
a series
Forced labour
slavery
Shackles
Contemporary
Child Labour
Child soldiers
Conscription
Debt
Forced marriage
Bride buying
Child marriage
Wife selling
Forced prostitution
Human trafficking
Peonage
Penal labour
Contemporary Africa
21st-century jihadism
Sexual slavery
Wage slavery
Historical
Antiquity
Egypt
Babylonia
Greece
Rome

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