Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan

Evidence

The trial revealed Egyptian nationalism at a peculiar nexus: Egypt was colonized by the British and yet often eager to recolonize the Sudanese in some way or another. The racial constructions inherent in these circumstances were also complex. Shaghlüb, the Bedouin slave trader, could claim a slave as his wife with none of the taboo of racial miscegenation that a similar marriage would have borne in Great Britain or the United States. Still, she was a slave. … For many of the British observers, the six slaves were victims, made vulnerable by their skin color.And the women knew themselves to have been purchased, and they considered themselves wrongly enslaved. If they were Muslims, then their religion removed them from the categories of the enslaveable, where polytheistic religious practices were nearly the equivalent of racial distinction. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.95)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan (similarity 0.92)
• Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-British resistance with its own recolonizing ambitions in Sudan (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.89)
• British colonialists and Egyptian nationalists agreed on the civilizing mission’s goal for slave women (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists desired to recolonize Sudan even after losing it (similarity 0.87)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists sought to become empire-builders alongside Europeans (similarity 0.87)
• Mahdist Sudanese preferred distant British rule over near Egyptian rule (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. #expands (0.85)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54
• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. #corroborates (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism #corroborates (0.70)
• Egyptian anti-imperial nationalists embraced the civilizing mission against Sudan #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 771