A European prisoner found racial hierarchy inversion under black rule mentally unbearable

Evidence

There was I, a European, a Prussian, a man who had fought with the British troops in what transpired to be the “too late” expedition for the rescue of Gordon, now in the clutches of the tyrant and his myrmidons, whom we had hoped to rescue Gordon from; a white and a Christian— the only professing Christian—chained and helpless, being flogged by a black, as much a captive and a slave as I was, and yet my superior and master. It is impossible for any one not having undergone a similar experience to appreciate the mental agonies I endured. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 617

Categorization

• XREF: Directly illuminates the reader’s Egyptian-vs-Sudanese coloniality frame by showing how a white European experienced the reversal of racial dominance.
• QUESTION: Worth checking how Neufeld’s account was received — does his trauma of inversion become propaganda justifying later colonial reconquest?