Egyptian domestic slavery was defended as gentle family care

Evidence

On the other side of the wall stood the majority of Egyptians, who saw slaves as closely connected to their households and often treated them as part of their families, and who believed that the more gentle domestic bondage of Egypt actually benefited the slaves themselves. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 659

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• British and Egyptian views of slavery rested on opposed domestic assumptions. (similarity 0.85)
• Most slaves in Egypt worked as female domestic servants in households (similarity 0.85)
• Most Egyptian slaves were single household domestics embedded in intimate families. (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian domestic slavery was milder than American plantation slavery, though capture was brutal. (similarity 0.84)
• Most Egyptian slaves lived singly as intimate household members (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian household slavery was comparatively milder than American plantation slavery (similarity 0.82)
• Elite Egyptian households used veiled truth and slave discipline to enforce parallel hierarchies (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian slaves mostly worked singly in small urban middle-class households (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian elite households employed both African and Circassian slaves as caretakers (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian slavery discourse conflated African slaves with Circassian ones (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian nationalists framed slavery as a domestic civilizing mission toward Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian intellectuals defended Islamic slavery as inherently milder than Western slavery. (similarity 0.80)
• British and Egyptian actors disputed Islamic household norms through slavery debates (similarity 0.80)
• British administrators argued slavery did not offend Egyptian public morality. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian antislavery debate conflated African and Circassian slave experience. (similarity 0.79)