Egyptian feminists remembered Sudanese household slaves with tenderness and familial intimacy

Evidence

Sha`rawï’s memoirs reveal her struggle against the constraints of her childhood and upbringing and her unique way of questioning the premises upon which Egyptian upper-class households were both structured and idealized in the late nineteenth century. Her relationship to the slaves of the household, whom she remembered with tenderness, exemplifies the close personal ties and intimacy with which many political activists of her generation viewed the Sudanese. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 847

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the intimacy of colonial-era domestic slavery as remembered sentiment — how tenderness and domination coexisted in nationalist households; could pair with the reader’s general coloniality framing.