British authorities resettled freed Sudanese slave women into Cairo domestic service

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

• XREF: Illustrates paternalistic imperial intervention differing between Egypt (reformist rule) and Sudan (origin of the trafficked people); relevant to reader’s comparative coloniality analysis. — connects to: Freed Sudanese women channeled into domestic work then disappeared from records. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 110