British officials doubted Egyptian nationalists were sincere about abolishing slavery

Evidence

But even rebels against the system were distrusted by both current and former British officials. Few believed in the existence of the public opinion that Uräbï and his associates claimed to be spokesmen for, and even fewer thought that any Egyptian could oppose so old and intrinsic an institution. Samuel Baker, the famous explorer who had earlier been hired by Khedive Ismäïl to abolish slavery in the regions of the southern Sudan, responded publicly to the appeal that Blunt had sent to the Anti-Slavery Society, asserting that `Uräbï and the other nationalists were as involved as any Turco-Circassian in their hypocrisy over eliminating slavery in Egyptian society. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 671

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Egyptian nationalists publicly declared slavery an abomination to be abolished (similarity 0.93)
• British officials dismissed Egyptians’ anti-slavery professions as hypocrisy (similarity 0.92)
• Egypt hired British officials to placate London abolitionists (similarity 0.86)
• British officials used antislavery rhetoric to dismiss Egypt’s empire and justify their own (similarity 0.84)
• Britain used anti-slavery claims to justify its empire over Egypt and Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Britain justified its empire by discrediting Egyptian authority over Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian expansion into East Africa collided with British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.83)
• British anti-slavery scrutiny silenced Egyptian nationalist claims on reconquering Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Britain dismissed Egypt’s empire ambitions to justify its own colonial rule. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists framed slavery as an Egyptian-Sudanese matter excluding the British (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists found it painful that British abolitionists were right about Islamic slavery (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists blamed Britain for provoking Sudanese rebellion against Egypt (similarity 0.82)
• Slavery’s legacy underpinned Egyptian nationalist discourse about the Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• British antislavery ideology morally delegitimized Egypt’s own empire in the Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Neither Egypt, Britain, nor northern Sudanese neo-Mahdists knew how to politically address former slaves. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists treated slavery as Egypt’s internal matter with Sudan #expands (0.70)
• Britain used anti-slavery claims to justify its empire over Egypt and Sudan #complicates (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 700