Disestablishment of the Istanbul Slave Market

The Disestablishment of the Istanbul Slave Market, refers to the Imperial Firman or Ferman (Decree) issued by Sultan Abdülmecid I in 1847. The edict closed the public slave market in the Ottoman capital of Istanbul. The reform was a cosmetic one and removed the visible slave trade in the capital by removing it from the street to indoors, thereby making it less visible to foreign criticism during the Tanzimat modernization era.

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