TABLE OF CONTENTS: FrontMatter, pg. iii Contents, pg. vii LIST OF MAPS, pg. xi NOTES, pg. xiii PREFACE, pg. xvii INTRODUCTION, pg. 1 CHAPTER I. From Source to Market-- The Ottoman Slave-Trading Network in the Nineteenth Century, pg. 14 CHAPTER II. The Economics and Volume of the Ottoman Traffic, pg. 55 CHAPTER III. The Road to Prohibition-- Anglo-Ottoman Contacts Regarding the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1840-1855, pg. 91 CHAPTER IV. Prohibition and Resignation-- The African Versus the Caucasian Traffic in the Late 1850s, pg. 124 CHAPTER V. Circassian Slavery and Slave Trade-- an Ottoman Solution, pg. 148 CHAPTER VI. Between Prohibition and Convention-- The African Slave Trade to the Ottoman Empire, 1857-1877, pg. 192 CHAPTER VII. Anti-Slave Trade Conventions and the Decline of the African Traffic, 1877-1890, pg. 224 CHAPTER VIII. Some General Aspects of British Pressure and Ottoman Reaction, pg. 249 EPILOGUE, pg. 279 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, pg. 285 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 291 INDEX, pg. 299