Sudanese enslaved in Egypt fared better than African slaves in the Americas.

Evidence

It is undoubtedly the Portuguese era that marks the African ethnic influence in the new continent. It was the Portuguese who, by creating a vast network of traders, factors, and middlemen, and by profiting from the drop in the Indian population, achieved a market capable of absorbing such enormous quantities… . I believe that the Portuguese period was a special era for the slave trade, which was never repeated. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 561 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian domestic slavery was milder than American plantation slavery, though capture was brutal.; Egyptian household slavery was comparatively milder than American plantation slavery — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 662; Freed Sudanese slaves voiced ambivalent gratitude toward Egyptian masters (+5 more)

Related

• The Portuguese era uniquely shaped African ethnic influence in the Americas (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian domestic slavery was milder than American plantation slavery, though capture was brutal. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian household slavery was comparatively milder than American plantation slavery (similarity 0.80)
• Egyptian intellectuals defended Islamic slavery as inherently milder than Western slavery. (similarity 0.80)
• Most Egyptian slaves were single household domestics embedded in intimate families. (similarity 0.80)
• Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in Egypt. (similarity 0.79)
• Enslaved Africans vastly outnumbered whites and free-coloreds in Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian defenses of slavery glossed over the Sudanese slave trade’s harshness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Portuguese era uniquely shaped African ethnic influence in the Americas #contradicts (0.30) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 561
• Black slaves entered the Americas as early as 1501. #corroborates (0.30)
• Saint-Domingue was the first postemancipation society in the Americas with abrupt abolition #contradicts (0.20)