Elite Egyptian households used veiled truth and slave discipline to enforce parallel hierarchies

Evidence

This insistence on shrouding the truth was intended to keep women and children in their place in a hierarchy of authority within the household. But another hierarchy also had to be invoked—that which separated slaves from the rest of the family. Sha`rawï respected one tradition begun by her grandfather and continued by her father, which was to make sure that one was loved by one’s slaves and servants. But this love was more complicated for the children of the household, whom the slaves had to discipline in the name of the children’s father and the slaves’ master. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 850

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s frame on how domestic institutions in colonial-era Egypt sustained class, gender, and slave hierarchies simultaneously, cutting across the Egypt/Sudan comparison in how slavery persisted inside elite homes.