Only the Coptic press editor condemned slavery outright among Egyptian papers

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. The editor, Ibrahïm Ramzi, also chided `Alï Pasha Sharïf and his codefendant, Shawarbi Pasha, both members of the Legislative Assembly and, therefore, representatives of the nation, men in whom an entire community had placed its faith. They must be among the most diligent observers of these basic truths. If they were corrupt, Ramzi worried, then so was the entire nation! — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 710

Categorization

• XREF: The Egyptian press’s near-unanimous defense of the pashas is a strong data point for the reader’s comparison of nationalist discourse in Egypt vs Sudan.