A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa

By M'hamed Oualdi, Visiting Research Scholar, Near Eastern Studies

Published Dec. 19, 2020

A Slave Between Empires follows General Husayn, a 19th-century slave whose life and posthumous estate connected disparate empires and cultural communities. Oualdi draws on a diverse set of sources to present this microhistory of global colonialism in the 19th-century.