"A very welcome addition to the literature on enslavement in the Middle East, which includes some excellent studies. It is a must read for any social historian of the region."-- The American Historical Review " Race and Slavery in the Middle East is a well-researched and eloquently written book about African slavery. The editors, Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno, have drawn on the expertise of specialists to unpack the histories, culture, and the trans-Saharan Africans' experience with race and marginalization in nineteenth century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. Relying on a broad range of sources, including census data, Islamic court records, biographies, and police records, the editors succeed in capturing the lost voices of the trans-Saharan Africans and presenting their experience of race and slavery devoid of Western imagery and bias."-- The Historian "Walz and Cuno assembled this volume in a time when many scholars were quite interested in the intersection of comparative world-history, gender, and slavery. These contributors offer this, and they also reveal some dynamics of diaspora communities in this world-system.

Such knowledge is pregnant with wisdom for government officials tasked with ameliorating neighborhood dynamics as, to borrow categories from these chapters, white, red, brown and black people from the world-system demarcated by the Black, Caspian, and Red Seas, in addition to the Persian Gulf and Lake Chad, migrate to new homes and safe havens in Western Europe."-- Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association "This volume is an excellent contribution to the study of slavery and race in the Ottoman empire and should be considered essential reading for purposes of the comparative study of slavery as well as the study of slavery in the Islamic world."-- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.