Educating Sudanese elites’ children in Cairo served as a tool of Egyptian colonial hegemony

Evidence

Interestingly, the children knew a great deal about the slaves too, but the pasts of the slaves became nursery tales, told to soothe the children: “Our nurses used to tell us stories about how they had been captured, and about what their own countries had been like and the customs of their people, until we grew exhausted and they would tuck us in our beds.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 852 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Egyptian elites built Westernized schools to forge a protonationalist identity; Muhammad Ali educated Sudanese children in Cairo as instruments of Egyptian colonial hegemony; Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (+7 more)

Related

• Sudanese slaves’ captive origins were narrated to Egyptian elite children as soothing bedtime tales (similarity 0.92)
• Elite Egyptian children heard slaves’ capture stories reframed as soothing folk tales (similarity 0.88)
• Elite Egyptian households absorbed Sudanese slaves so thoroughly that their origins became bedtime folklore (similarity 0.88)
• Muhammad Ali educated Sudanese children in Cairo as instruments of Egyptian colonial hegemony (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian elites built Westernized schools to forge a protonationalist identity (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian colonialism used educated Sudanese children as proof of its civilizing hegemony (similarity 0.84)
• Slaves’ captivity histories were retold to Egyptian elite children as soothing bedtime stories. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian attitudes about Sudan derived from Ottoman and older Islamic cultures (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.79)
• Popular Egyptian culture stereotyped Sudanese as a servant class within the empire. (similarity 0.79)
• Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese slaves’ captive origins were narrated to Egyptian elite children as soothing bedtime tales #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 852
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally #expands (0.62)
• Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood #corroborates (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #corroborates (0.60)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects #corroborates (0.55)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #corroborates (0.55)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination #corroborates (0.55)
• Egyptian nationalists saw mastery over the Sudan as restoration of past greatness #corroborates (0.50)