Egyptian guilds discriminated against Sudanese and Nubian members in the 1870s

Evidence

In most of their roles the Sudanese were in subservient positions, helping and supporting Egyptian family structures. But the majority of Egyptians do not seem to have seen the Sudanese or Nubians beyond this iconographic level, as the experiences of Nubian traders and guild members attested to in the late 1870s. Many of these men found that the Egyptian guilds discriminated against them, and they made their own appeals for independent guilds, so difficult was their integration. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 347

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did these independent Nubian guild claims resolve, and do they parallel later Sudanese nationalist grievances?