When a slave was freed, they rarely had not other obtion that to continue to work for their former owners, with no true difference in their conditions or status.
The nominal emancipation made it easier for employers to get rid of slaves they no longer wanted by firing them rather than to sell them.
By this point in time the new concept of free employed maidservants was first described in Ottoman literature, where they were described with suspicion as potential untrustworthy seductresses and criminals.
The Young Turks founded the Hizmetçi İdaresi as a Servant Institution to assist former female slaves to find employment as domestic workers and maidservants in order to escape prostitution to survive.
[3] In Ottoman society, free domestic servants where not viewed as different from chattel slaves, and there were no distinction made between the two categories.