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Cover -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Slavery in the Late Medieval Mediterranean -- Chapter 2. Difference and the Perception of Slave Status -- Chapter 3. Societies with Slaves: Genoa, Venice, and the Mamluk Sultanate -- Chapter 4. The Slave Market and the Act of Sale -- Chapter 5. Making Slaves in the Black Sea -- Chapter 6. Constraining Disorder: Merchants, States, and the Structure of the Slave Trade -- Chapter 7. Crusade, Embargo, and the Trade in Mamluk Slaves -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Reading notorial registers, tax records, law, merchants' accounts, travelers' tales and letters, sermons, slave-buying manuals, and literary works as well as treaties governing the slave trade and crusade propaganda, Hannah Barker gives a rich picture of the context in which merchants traded and enslaved people met their fate.