British and Egyptian elites agreed that domesticating slave women served the civilizing mission.

Evidence

Although the British opponents and the Egyptian defenders of the slave-buying pashas were divided about the boundaries between Egypt and the Sudan, it is ironic that on this boundary of slave women they were in agreement: the civilizing mission would enable slave women to be trained differently and brought into a new, modern era. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 109

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s interest in how colonial/ruling logics converge across supposedly opposed sides; also parallels Milgrom’s finding that opposing parties share unstated institutional premises.