British abolitionist pressure forced khedive Ismail to sign abolition convention

Evidence

In one petition, the members of the Society praised the khedive for statements he had made against the slave trade in 1867, but questioned the lack of movement toward abolition of the institution since that time. The members of the Society chose their words carefully in addressing a ruler whose goal of raising Egypt to the level of Europe were well-known. In crushing the trade in slaves, they informed him, “Your Highness would thus become the pioneer of liberty, and Egypt[,] being a land of freedom[,] would take rank among the most civilized nations of the world.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 657 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• British anti-slavery pressure forced Egypt to sign the 1877 Slave Trade Convention (similarity 0.91)
• British pressure forced Ismail into the 1877 slave-trade abolition treaty granting UK enforcement rights. (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt hired British officials to placate London abolitionists (similarity 0.86)
• The antislavery convention polarized British occupiers against Egyptian households over slavery (similarity 0.86)
• British antislavery pressure produced the 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention to end the slave trade (similarity 0.83)
• Sudan’s conquest made slave trading an organized state function for Egypt (similarity 0.82)
• The abolitionist lobby wielded political clout over Egyptian and East African policy (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian expansion into East Africa collided with British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.82)
• British abolitionists read Ismail’s Sudan expansion as despotic Islam, not reform. (similarity 0.78)
• Egyptian nationalists publicly declared slavery an abomination to be abolished (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• British antislavery pressure produced the 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention to end the slave trade #expands (0.90)
• British antislavery pressure leveraged Egypt’s European ambitions to compel abolition. #expands (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 657