Nineteenth-century Egypt likely held only twenty to thirty thousand black slaves
Evidence
Walz asks, “If it is true that as many as 800,000 Africans were forcibly settled in the country during the eigh- teenth and nineteenth centuries, why is there so little ‘African’ imprint on the general population?” The purpose of this book is not to identify a bio- logical imprint of black slaves in Egypt (for how could it be proven that such an imprint exists?) but instead to reveal other imprints: how deeply the relationship with the Sudan and the Sudanese affected Egyptian nationalism and cultural identity. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 112 (
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It also looks at concepts of “blackness” as described by each of these men, and how constructions of race hardened after the middle of the century, particularly in the work of Shaykh al- Tahtawï. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 113 (
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The European presence in Africa at the beginning of the century had been largely confined to a few settlements in southern Africa and to trading posts and factors on the northern, western, and eastern coasts. Even by mid-century, James and Padmore assert: “it is unlikely that more than one tenth of Africa was in European hands.” Nevertheless, the century had opened with resistance. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 823 (
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Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in Egypt. (similarity 0.87)
- Up to 800,000 enslaved Africans settled in Egypt with little demographic trace (similarity 0.86)
- Egypt’s nineteenth-century slave population numbered between twenty and thirty thousand (similarity 0.85)
- African slavery was treated entirely differently from Circassian slavery in Egypt (similarity 0.80)
- Most Egyptian slaves were single household domestics embedded in intimate families. (similarity 0.79)
- Ninth-century Egyptian audiences read Nubian identity as permanently slave-marked (similarity 0.79)
- Nineteenth-century European control of Africa long remained marginal before imperial conquest (similarity 0.79)
- Egyptian expansion into East Africa collided with British abolitionist scrutiny (similarity 0.78)
- Plantation-slavery definitions blinded Britons to Ottoman domestic slavery (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in Egypt.
#contradicts(0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 112 - Egyptian racial constructions of blackness hardened mid-century.
#qualifies(0.40) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 113 - Nineteenth-century European control of Africa long remained marginal before imperial conquest
#complicates(0.30) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 823