The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention banned the slave trade but not slavery itself.
Evidence
The members of the Society were also well aware that they had public opinion on their side. The pressure they exerted, which often had the support of members of Parliament, resulted in the Anglo-Egyptian Convention of 1877, which abolished the trade in African slaves in all territory held by the Egyptian government, although it did not outlaw the institution of slavery itself. The Anti-Slavery Convention was posted by decree throughout Egypt’s cities and the Sudan, and allowed for the creation of slave trade bureaus in Cairo, Alexandria, the Delta, and Upper Egypt. These bureaus were intended not only to record the manumission of individual slaves but also to find suitable employment for freed slaves and possible education for their children.The authorities of these bureaus were also responsible for the punishment of “any person depriving a freed slave of his freedom or taking from him his manumission certificate”; such a person was to be handled as a slave dealer. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 658
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the precise legal line between abolishing trade and abolishing the institution of slavery.
- corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 658
- XREF: connects to: The 1877 Anti-Slavery Convention divided British occupiers from Egyptians over household slavery.; The 1877 Anglo-Egyptian treaty punished traders but not buyers of slaves; British antislavery pressure produced the 1877 Anglo-Egyptian Convention to end the slave trade (+1 more)