British observers eroticized and reviled Egyptian slave integration into families

Evidence

The intimacy of this relationship and the extension of family ties to slaves provoked a mixture of titillation and disgust from British observers, reactions similar to those elicited by the exoticism of the harem, which, for European observers, was closely connected to slavery. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 667

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• European observers eroticized and condemned Egyptian domestic slavery in one gaze (similarity 0.91)
• British and Egyptian views of slavery rested on opposed domestic assumptions. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian expansion into East Africa collided with British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.84)
• British and Egyptian actors disputed Islamic household norms through slavery debates (similarity 0.83)
• British antislavery ideology morally delegitimized Egypt’s own empire in the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian slavery discourse conflated African slaves with Circassian ones (similarity 0.82)
• Britain dismissed Egypt’s empire ambitions to justify its own colonial rule. (similarity 0.82)
• British officials used antislavery rhetoric to dismiss Egypt’s empire and justify their own (similarity 0.82)
• Slavery’s legacy underpinned Egyptian nationalist discourse about the Sudan (similarity 0.82)
• Elite Egyptian households used veiled truth and slave discipline to enforce parallel hierarchies (similarity 0.81)
• Britain justified its empire by discrediting Egyptian authority over Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Britain used anti-slavery claims to justify its empire over Egypt and Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Both British and Egyptian publics competed to pose as African peoples’ civilizing saviors. (similarity 0.81)
• Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views. (similarity 0.81)
• Slavery’s legacy is central to the Egyptian-Sudanese colonial relationship (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese slaves were blank slates onto which Egyptians and British projected competing colonial narratives #expands (0.70)