Egyptian slavery was milder but Sudanese enslavement journeys were brutal

Evidence

Although the experience of being captured and the treks of slave caravans on the Forty Days’ Road (darb al-arba`ïn) were notoriously difficult for recently enslaved Sudanese, once in Egypt their experiences did tend to be milder than those of American slaves. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 662

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to broader African coloniality study and the comparative slavery literature separating capture/transport trauma from domestic bondage.