Egyptian slavery discourse conflated African slaves with Circassian ones

Evidence

Clearly, slavery was a terrible conundrum for Egyptian Muslims. Shafïk’s articles focused primarily on the experience of African slaves, as if the sanctity of marriage to Circassian slaves was too private an issue to be discussed. In doing this, he relegated African slaves to the same status as Circassian slaves, gentrifying their experience in Egypt while identifying the harshness of their severance from their own families in the Sudan with the institution of Western slavery. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 680

Categorization

• QUESTION: The excerpt cuts off mid-paragraph at ‘identifying the harshness’ - curious how the rhetorical strategy of eliding African slave experience played out, and this deserves the full continuation.