Arab slave traders extracted roughly 17 million people from Africa over nine centuries
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- Arab slave traders removed perhaps 17 million Africans over 900 years (similarity 0.88)
- British traders transported over 3.6 million Africans to the New World. (similarity 0.86)
- Slave origins determined which language hierarchies they occupied in Egypt (similarity 0.84)
- Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. (similarity 0.83)
- Some Sudanese tribes and traders profited from the Turkïya despite denouncing it (similarity 0.83)
- Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.82)
- Egyptian elites openly sought to close the Slave Trade Bureau in the 1890s (similarity 0.82)
- Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.82)
- Circassian slave supply collapsed as African slavery drew British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.82)
- Egyptian expansion into Africa collided with British abolitionism in the Nile Valley. (similarity 0.81)
- Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.81)
- Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in Egypt. (similarity 0.81)
- The slave trial became a proxy for who should control the Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
- Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.81)
- Islamic slavery differed markedly from Western Christian slavery. (similarity 0.80)