Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views.

Evidence

The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muhammad Ali valued Sudan mainly for slaves and a European-trained slave army; Slavery debates aggravated Egyptian-Sudanese colonial tensions; Egyptian nationalists treated slavery as Egypt’s internal matter with Sudan (+15 more)

Related

• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.90)
• British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians (similarity 0.90)
• Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.89)
• Sudanese themselves debated unity with Egypt under British oversight. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Sudanese elites debated unity with Egypt under British surveillance (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists framed slavery as an Egyptian-Sudanese matter excluding the British (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian defenses of slavery glossed over the Sudanese slave trade’s harshness (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese revolutionaries protested the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium concurrently. (similarity 0.86)
• Slavery’s legacy underpinned Egyptian nationalist discourse about the Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• A Sudan rebellion coincided with the British occupation of Egypt in 1884 (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. (similarity 0.86)
• The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium masked British dominance behind nominal Egyptian partnership (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• British occupation shifted slavery responsibility and tied it to Egyptian fitness for self-government #expands (0.75)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121
• Britain used anti-slavery claims to justify its empire over Egypt and Sudan #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalist claims on the Sudan were heard abroad as defenses of slavery. #expands (0.70)
• Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. #complicates (0.65)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. #expands (0.65)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. #expands (0.60)
• Sudanese slaves were blank slates onto which Egyptians and British projected competing colonial narratives #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese. #expands (0.55)