Only one Egyptian Coptic editor condemned both slavery’s buyers and sellers
Evidence
All the Egyptian newspaper editors were deeply sympathetic to the pashas for the indignity the tribunal inflicted on them, but only the editor of the Coptic paper al-Fayüm condemned both buyer and seller and the entire institution of slavery.Anybody, buyer or seller, involved in slavery, he writes, is a barbarian. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 710
Categorization
- XREF: Shows internal Egyptian variation in antislavery sentiment—Christian Coptic editor outspoken against an institution elite Muslims defended; relevant to reader’s internal Egyptian colonial dynamics. — connects to: Only the Coptic press editor condemned slavery outright among Egyptian papers — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 710
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Only the Coptic press editor condemned slavery outright among Egyptian papers — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 710