Participant Info

First Name
Hannah
Last Name
Barker
Affiliation
Arizona State University
Website URL
https://shprs.asu.edu/content/hannah-barker
Keywords
Medieval history, slavery, trade, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Italy, Egypt
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About Me

I am interested in the trade in slaves from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. I work mainly with sources in Latin and Arabic produced in the major slave markets of Genoa, Venice, and Cairo. My book on this topic, That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 is forthcoming in fall 2019.

Recent Publications

“Christianities in Conflict: The Black Sea as a Genoese Slaving Zone in the Later Middle Ages,” in Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, ed. Jeff Fynn-Paul and Damian Alan Pargas (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 50-69.

“Purchasing a Slave in Fourteenth-Century Cairo: Ibn al-Akfānī’s Book of Observation and Inspection in the Examination of Slaves,” Mamluk Studies Review 19 (2016): 1-24.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Italy, Egypt, Ukraine, Russia
Expertise by Geography
Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East, Russia, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
1
Expertise by Topic
Economic History, Gender, Labor, Law, Race, Slavery