Using probate inventories from multiple locations in the Ottoman central lands, this article offers a quantitative perspective on long-term patterns of slaveholding, slave prices, and demand for slaves. Findings include a continual decline in slave-ownership and related indicators across all social groups and strata, and a decline in prices in connection with trafficking from Africa in the eighteenth century. The investment preferences of the top buyers and the composition of the slave population also indicate that the features of the demand for slaves were neither fixed in any period nor uniform across regions.

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奥斯曼中部地区的奴隶制（1460-1880 年）

本文使用来自奥斯曼中部地区多个地点的遗嘱认证库存，提供了关于奴隶持有、奴隶价格和奴隶需求的长期模式的定量视角。调查结果包括所有社会群体和阶层的奴隶所有权和相关指标持续下降，以及与 18 世纪从非洲贩运人口有关的价格下降。顶级买家的投资偏好和奴隶人口的构成也表明，对奴隶的需求特征既不是一成不变的，也不是跨地区统一的。