The slave trial became a proxy for who should control the Sudan.

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• Sudanese slaves in Egypt became a flashpoint in British-Egyptian disputes over independence. (similarity 0.88)
• Both Egyptians and British failed to conceptualize southern Sudanese former slaves politically (similarity 0.86)
• Even anticolonial Egyptian nationalists reproduced demeaning stereotypes of Sudanese slaves. (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali (similarity 0.84)
• The Sudan invasion primarily aimed to capture men for the army (similarity 0.84)
• Britain effaced Egypt’s role in the Sudan by reattributing its history. (similarity 0.83)
• The 1924 Sudanese revolt collapsed when Egyptian troops refused to reciprocate loyalty (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian rule made Sudan the first interior African region to feel Western colonial tensions. (similarity 0.83)
• Mehmed Ali first looked to Sudanese slaves rather than Egyptian peasants for his army (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (similarity 0.83)
• Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient (similarity 0.82)
• Some Sudanese tribes and traders profited from the Turkïya despite denouncing it (similarity 0.82)