Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence.

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• Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.92)
• Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese. (similarity 0.90)
• Britain effaced Egypt’s role in the Sudan by reattributing its history. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian rule made Sudan the first interior African region to feel Western colonial tensions. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site (similarity 0.88)
• The slave trial became a proxy for who should control the Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian anti-British nationalism preserved the internal racial hierarchy over Sudanese (similarity 0.88)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian nationalism paired aggression toward Sudan with defensiveness toward Britain. (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian expansion into Africa collided with British abolitionism in the Nile Valley. (similarity 0.88)