The Sudan conquest made the slave trade an organized function of government.

Evidence

Robert Collins goes even further in his discussion of the significance of slavery in the Sudan campaign, saying that, although many men had been enlisted in Egyptian armies since the time of the Pharaohs, it was not until the conquest of the Sudan that “the slave trade became an organized function of an Oriental colonial government.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 186

Categorization

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