Egypt abolished the African slave trade in 1877.

Evidence

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: Baseline date for the reader’s comparative timeline of Egyptian and Sudanese colonial history.