British antislavery definitions rooted in plantation slavery misread Ottoman domestic slavery
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- Plantation-slavery definitions blinded Britons to Ottoman domestic slavery (similarity 0.85)
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- The 1877 Anti-Slavery Convention divided British occupiers from Egyptians over household slavery. (similarity 0.82)
- British antislavery pressure produced the 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention to end the slave trade (similarity 0.82)
- United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.81)
- British observers judged Ottoman slavery through a plantation model it did not fit (similarity 0.81)
- Circassian slave supply collapsed as African slavery drew British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.81)
- British administrators argued slavery did not offend Egyptian public morality. (similarity 0.80)
- Islamic slavery differed markedly from Western Christian slavery. (similarity 0.80)
- The antislavery universalism of Grégoire inadvertently fueled planters’ fears of slave revolt (similarity 0.79)
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- British and Ottoman elites each misread the other’s form of slavery (similarity 0.79)
- Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. (similarity 0.79)