Freed Sudanese women channeled into domestic work then disappeared from records.

Evidence

Given the layers of meaning surrounding these women, there is great irony in the fact that the six slaves left the courtroom and were placed in the Cairo Home for Freed Slaves, an institution created by the British as a sort of training and employment clearinghouse, where manumitted black women could find paying jobs, as domestics, keeping their connection to the institution of the family respectable. Once they left the auspices of this idealizing home, Fatima, Sa`ïda, Halïma, Maräsila, and Maryam also left the historical record and disappeared into, one hopes, better and more stable lives. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 110

Categorization

• CANDY: The archival vanishing of named individuals is a poignant, shareable observation about how ‘rescued’ people exit the historical record.
• XREF: connects to: British authorities resettled freed Sudanese slave women into Cairo domestic service — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 708; Britain founded a Cairo home to funnel freed Sudanese women into domestic work; Egyptian widows of Sudan-lost officers were denied pensions without proof of survival — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 537
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: British authorities resettled freed Sudanese slave women into Cairo domestic service — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 708; Britain founded a Cairo home to funnel freed Sudanese women into domestic work; Egyptian widows of Sudan-lost officers were denied pensions without proof of survival — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 537