Valide Author:Barbara Chase Riboud Barbara Chase Riboud's novel Valide, deals with a different form of slavery: white slavery. She had taken the story of an American Creole captured and sold into the harem of Topkapi during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid 1. — A brilliant and ambitious novel of love and slavery in the harem of the sultan. A miniature nation of locked-u... more »p women owned by the Sultan, governed by a set of rules and regulations as strict as a convent, and ruled by the black Eunuch.« less