Slavery in the Early Mughal World

Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman admiral Selman Reis, who took him with his fleet to Egypt and Yemen during his wars with the Portuguese; carried, after the admiral''s death, by the admiral''s nephew Mustafa Bayram to Gujarat on the western coast of India; and finally, when the Mughal ar...