British anti-slavery pressure forced Egypt to sign the 1877 Slave Trade Convention
Evidence
The farther south Isma
ïl moved, therefore, the more vigilant the influential members of the Anti-Slavery Society became. Not only did they petition the khedive directly to abolish the slave trade, but they also had the ear of many individuals in Parliament and the Foreign Office. So loud were their voices that, by 1877, Ismaïl signed the Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention. Under the terms of this treaty, Isma`ïl committed Egypt to abolition of the trade in African slaves, particularly those from the Sudan and Abyssinia. The treaty also permitted the participation of British forces in this campaign to end the slave trade. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 295
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
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- British pressure forced Ismail into the 1877 slave-trade abolition treaty granting UK enforcement rights. (similarity 0.94)
- British abolitionist pressure forced khedive Ismail to sign abolition convention (similarity 0.91)
- British antislavery pressure produced the 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention to end the slave trade (similarity 0.89)
- The antislavery convention polarized British occupiers against Egyptian households over slavery (similarity 0.87)
- The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention banned the slave trade but not slavery itself. (similarity 0.83)
- The 1877 Convention abolished slave trade but not slavery itself. (similarity 0.82)
- Egypt hired British officials to placate London abolitionists (similarity 0.82)
- Egyptian expansion into East Africa collided with British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.80)
- Sudan’s conquest made slave trading an organized state function for Egypt (similarity 0.80)
- The 1877 Anti-Slavery Convention divided British occupiers from Egyptians over household slavery. (similarity 0.79)
- The abolitionist lobby wielded political clout over Egyptian and East African policy (similarity 0.79)
- The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian treaty punished traders but not buyers of slaves (similarity 0.79)
- British officials used antislavery rhetoric to dismiss Egypt’s empire and justify their own (similarity 0.78)