| Abstract: | At the end of his long and brilliant career in the Ottoman Administration, Abmad Rasim Pacha became Veli (governor) of Tripoli, in which quality he served from 1881 till 1896. As an expert and capable functionary he succeeded in solving several difficult problems, in the first place that of the traffic in African slaves through the Fazzan from the far side of the Sahara. For years, Tripoli bad been known to Turks and North African Arabs as 'Suq al-Bashar', the slave market. Since 1863, the Ottoman Government had made more than one effort to stop this obnoxious traffic. One of Ahmad Rasim's first measures, and one which he could enforce locally with vigor, was the manumission of all slaves within the town of Tripoli. In this paper an account is given of the Pasha's moves against the trade in the context of the history of the Fezzan. Notes, sum. in French and Italian. |
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