Britain founded a Cairo home to funnel freed Sudanese women into domestic work

Evidence

Foreign Office officials registered their fears that, once freed from slavery, black Sudanese women with few skills and fewer familial connections would fall back into the clutches of Muslim households, prey once more either to slavery, concubinage, or prostitution.To circumvent this, the Home for Freed Black Slave Women (also known as the Cairo Home for Freed Slaves) was founded in Cairo in 1886 to place Sudanese and Ethiopian women in appropriate domestic employment. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 708

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: The ‘rescue into domestic service’ pattern echoes elsewhere in the reader’s colonial-abolition literature — an imperial salvation institution that reproduces labor relations.
• QUESTION: What became of the women placed from the Cairo Home for Freed Slaves — did their ‘appropriate domestic employment’ differ materially from servitude?

Related

• British authorities resettled freed Sudanese slave women into Cairo domestic service (similarity 0.94)
• British institutions channeled freed female slaves into domestic service in Egypt (similarity 0.83)
• Most slaves in Egypt worked as female domestic servants in households (similarity 0.79)