Saving Lost Souls or Doing Good Business?: Interactions at the Russian-Kazakh Frontier and Strategies for Freeing Russian Slaves in Central Asia in the Early 19th Century

• In Event: Eurasian and Transottoman Slavery: Actors and their Networks in the Translocal Slave Trade from the 17th to 19th Centuries

Abstract

Elena Smolarz explores in her paper the translocal slave trade networks and slaving processes in the Kazakh Steppe and in Central Asia in the early 19th century. She focuses on interactions at the Russian-Kazakh frontier and strategies for freeing Russian slaves in Central Asia.

Author

• Elena Smolarz, U of Bonn (Germany)