Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali

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• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site (similarity 0.93)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian rule made Sudan the first interior African region to feel Western colonial tensions. (similarity 0.88)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient (similarity 0.88)
• Kamil framed Egypt as rightful Islamic ruler over a fanatical Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. (similarity 0.87)
• Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese elite al-Zubayr moved fluidly between Egyptian and British spheres (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. (similarity 0.86)
• Britain effaced Egypt’s role in the Sudan by reattributing its history. (similarity 0.86)
• An Egyptian governor of Sudan’s Equatoria was excluded from Cairo’s Geographic Society. (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism’s founder also codified racial disdain for the Sudanese (similarity 0.86)