Interdisciplinary Conference of Young Scholars in Social Sciences (USA)

CAPTIVE TRADE IN GEORGIA

Landa Chokhelishvili

Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University, Faculty of Humanities, IV year of history

Iakob Gogebashvili

Doctor of History, Associate Professor Madona Kebadze, Telavi State University, Faculty of Humanities

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Abstract

There were numerous glorious moments throughout centuries-old history of Georgia, though we would like to talk today about that terrible and shameful social fact, which is known in history as “Captive Trade”. It brought the biggest damage to Georgian community and to the moral past of our people.’ Not any war or any foreign conqueror brought so much damage with swords to Georgia than this “peaceful” captive trade “- fairly denoted academician Niko Berdzenishvili. This was total, century old demolishing. Captive trade was the result of heavy social-political and economic situation of feudal Georgia. Trade with people caused big damage to the development of Georgian nation and its independence. Georgian population and the power of the country was in danger as the best part of Georgians, its brave young people constantly immigrated abroad and were forever lost for the motherland. This was the result of the conflict between king and the officials and it is one of the cases that left heavy effects on the history and the development of the country.