Both Egypt and Sudan struggled to fit former slaves into nationalist identities

Evidence

I see a more enduring unity in how communities in both Egypt and the Sudan struggled, in different ways, to incorporate African slaves, former slaves, and their immediate descendants into nationalist visions of each country’s identity. There is also a similarity in how these slaves and their relatives were ignored or stereotyped and how what were considered to be “African” traces in Egyptian and Sudanese cultural heritage were problematized.This again underlines how the ongoing and controversial issue of the Sudan, so volatile for elements of Egyptian nationalism, affected people’s constructions of race and identity all along the Nile Valley. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 782

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the reader’s slavery theme (Ibrahïm Fawzï Pasha’s slave-owning); connects to broader literature on post-slavery race in nationalist projects.