Felicia Roșu, Ph.D. (2009), Georgetown University, is a Lecturer in History at Leiden University. Her publications include Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1587 (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Critical Readings on Global Slavery (Brill, 2017), co-edited with Damian Alan Pargas.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements PrefaceEhud R. Toledano Introduction Felicia Roșu Part I: The Italian Phase 1. Black Sea Slavery in Genoese Notarial Sources, 13th–15th Centuries Michel Balard2. Slavery in the Black Sea Region in Venetian Notarial Sources, 14th–15th Centuries Sergei Karpov Part II: Slavery and Christianity3. The Role of Slaves in the Byzantine Economy, 10th–11th Centuries: Legal Aspects Daphne Penna 4. Christian Slave Traders, Slave Owners, and Slaves in the 13th–15th Centuries Sandra Origone 5. The Orthodox Church and the Emancipation of Gypsy Slaves in the Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century Viorel Achim Part III: Raiders and Captives on the Northern Shore 6. “It Was the Poles that Gave Me Most Pain”: Polish Slaves and Captives in the Crimea, 1475–1774 Mikhail Kizilov 7. How Captives Were Taken: The Making of Tatar Slaving Raids in the Early Modern Period Andrzej Gliwa 8. Captive-Taking in the Ottoman and Crimean Black Sea Region and Unfreedom in the Northern Countries Maryna Kravets and Victor Ostapchuk Part IV: The Circassian Question 9. What Caused the 14th-Century Tatar–Circassian Shift? Hannah Barker 10. Slaves of the Crimean Khan or Muslim Warriors? The Status of Circassians in the Early Modern Period Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska Part V: The Black Sea and Global Slavery 11. People-Taking across the Mediterranean Maritime Frontier, 1675–1714 Colin Heywood 12. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic and the Black Sea: A Comparative View Dariusz Kołodziejczyk Index