Mahdist Sudanese preferred distant British rule over near Egyptian rule

Evidence

The trial revealed Egyptian nationalism at a peculiar nexus: Egypt was colonized by the British and yet often eager to recolonize the Sudanese in some way or another. The racial constructions inherent in these circumstances were also complex. Shaghlüb, the Bedouin slave trader, could claim a slave as his wife with none of the taboo of racial miscegenation that a similar marriage would have borne in Great Britain or the United States. Still, she was a slave. … For many of the British observers, the six slaves were victims, made vulnerable by their skin color.And the women knew themselves to have been purchased, and they considered themselves wrongly enslaved. If they were Muslims, then their religion removed them from the categories of the enslaveable, where polytheistic religious practices were nearly the equivalent of racial distinction. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.88)
• Sudanese tribal leaders preferred distant British rule to nearby Egyptian domination (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt’s anti-imperialism was entangled with ambitions to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.86)
• British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalism combined anti-British resistance with its own recolonizing ambitions in Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial tropes to describe the Sudanese (similarity 0.84)
• Shared language and religion did not protect Egyptians from degradation in Mahdist Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists framed Sudan as family bound to Egyptian dictates, silencing Sudanese protest (similarity 0.84)
• British officials justified separating the Sudan from Egypt using racial and tribal characterizations (similarity 0.83)
• The Sudan’s ethnic divisions outweighed its religious and linguistic ties to Egypt (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian writers ranked Sudanese tribes on a racial scale of savagery. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Sudanese themselves compared Egyptian and British imperial techniques #corroborates (0.70)
• British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #expands (0.55) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 54
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #qualifies (0.50)