American and Ottoman Slavery, as Represented in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers
[Thesis]
Sayoglu, Melike
Gertz, SunHee Kim
Clark University
2019
419 p.
Ph.D.
Clark University
2019
This dissertation examines comparisons of American and Ottoman slavery as conveyed primarily in nineteenth-century American newspapers, as well as various international relations between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire. Through extensive examination of archival materials, I examine how slavery is deeply embedded in each nation's culture, so deeply embedded in many culture-defining ways, that it also influences the present, as my last chapter on twentieth-century film portrayals of African Turkish women argues.