Egyptian nationalists framed slavery as an Egyptian-Sudanese matter excluding the British

Evidence

But nowhere in al-Nadïm’s poignant dialogue, or earlier articles on similar subjects, do the British appear. For al-Nadïm, slavery was part and parcel of Egypt’s historic relation with the Sudan; the British did not, and should not, figure in the debate.This crisis over internal slavery was further fueled by the unfolding events in the Sudan: by the mid-1890s, reports of escaped prisoners had made it clear to both the Egyptian and British public that the Mahdist state in the Sudan, then being run by the Mahdï’s successor, the khalifa Abdullah al-Taishï, was overwhelmed with famine and war. British officials waged a propaganda campaign to garner public support for the reconquest of the Sudan, brandishing the memory of General Charles Gordon like a sword. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 690

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s stated goal of distinguishing Egyptian versus Sudanese coloniality and how anti-British nationalism used Sudan as a lever.