A black high-ranking official shocked young Mubärak’s racial expectations

Evidence

I looked at him and saw that he was black, Abyssinian, as if he were a Mamluk’s slave. Yet he was both magnanimous and dignified. I saw how the shaykhs and judges of the area stood before him, and how he counseled them. I stayed around until they had gone, and then entered his chamber and kissed his hand. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 255 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A dark-skinned official’s high rank shocked a young Egyptian’s racial hierarchy; A black Abyssinian commissioner presiding over Arab dignitaries shocked young Mubarak; A black Abyssinian official commanded deference from powerful Egyptian shaykhs. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 255 (+1 more)

Related

• A black Abyssinian commissioner presiding over Arab dignitaries shocked young Mubarak (similarity 0.97)
• A dark-skinned official’s high rank shocked a young Egyptian’s racial hierarchy (similarity 0.96)
• A black Abyssinian official commanded deference from powerful Egyptian shaykhs. (similarity 0.94)
• Nineteenth-century rural Egyptians equated high office exclusively with Turkishness, not blackness (similarity 0.87)
• A dark-skinned high official’s rank shattered Mubarak’s racial hierarchy assumptions (similarity 0.85)
• Mubarak was deeply disturbed by a black African holding high office. (similarity 0.83)
• A village boy’s worldview equated racial blackness with slavery’s limits until shown otherwise (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• A black Abyssinian commissioner presiding over Arab dignitaries shocked young Mubarak #corroborates (0.90)
• A dark-skinned official’s high rank shocked a young Egyptian’s racial hierarchy #corroborates (0.85)
• A black Abyssinian official commanded deference from powerful Egyptian shaykhs. #corroborates (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 255
• A black manumitted slave rose to high office in Egypt’s new administration #expands (0.60)