The Ottoman Empire is one of the largest and longest running Empires in history, spanning 623 years from 1299 to 1922; and 3 continents including the Balkans in South-Eastern Europe, Arabia and Central Asia, and coastal Northern Africa.
Like many great empires that came before it, the Ottoman Empire was based on slavery, but unlike most examples of slavery, in the Ottoman Empire, slaves were white.
John Smith went through the slave auctions of the day. he beat his master to death with a hay cutter.