: The volume includes studies on the legal status of slaves (the kul system), the role of middlemen and diplomatic envoys, and the social impact on the borderland communities.

: Covering the 15th to the early 18th centuries, it highlights the transition from religious warfare to a more structured, almost bureaucratic system of slave raiding and ransoming.

The book is a scholarly volume edited by Géza Dávid and Pál Fodor , published by Brill in 2007 as part of the Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage series.

: It examines the life of captives and the mechanisms of their release across the long borders between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe (specifically the Habsburg Empire and the Mediterranean).

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: The contributors detail how slavery on these borders was often a temporary state, where captives were viewed as valuable commodities to be traded back to their families or states for profit.

This "piece" is a collection of essays that explores the complex system of captive exchange and the "business" of ransom along the Ottoman frontiers. Key aspects of the work include: