A Sudanese woman’s claim of Islamic identity challenged the legality of her enslavement.

Evidence

One of the women, Zanüba, testified before the court that she came from Islamic territory in the Sudan, an assertion that implied her identity as a Muslim and disputed the legality of her status as a slave. Her assertion undermined many of the assumptions of the judges, lawyers, and reporters in the courtroom, yet it seemed difficult for them to hear her. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Zanüba’s testimony — a subaltern subject using juridical categories to assert agency — parallels the relational-foundationalist silence discussions in the knowledge base.
• SEED: Angle: how colonized subjects weaponized the colonizer’s own legal-religious categories of belonging.