Egypt abolished African slave trade in 1877 and created a bureau to enforce it

Evidence

Shaghlüb and the other traders were only too aware that being caught with six African women by the authorities of the Slave Trade Bureau would mean imprisonment.Trade in African slaves had been abolished in Egypt in 1877, and the bureau had been created to search for unlawful caravans and to enforce the abolition. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 46

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the Slave Trade Bureau’s origin and mandate