Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean /
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Language: English
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2010.
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Call Number: HT1316 .R23 2010
Table of Contents:
- •Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place Names •List of Maps and Illustrations •Preface and Acknowledgments •Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean •1. Muhammad Ali's First Army: The Experiment in Building an Entirely Slave Army •2. Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as Shown in the 1848 Census •3. African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment •4. "My Ninth Master was a European": Enslaved Blacks in European Households in Egypt, 1798-1848 •5. Magic, Theft, and Arson: The Life and Death of an Enslaved African Woman in Ottoman Izmit •6. Slavery and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum •7. Enslaved and Emancipated Africans on Crete •8. Black, Kinless, and Hungry: Manumitted Female Slaves in Khedival Egypt •9. Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim's Dialogues about the Family •Bibliography •Contributors •Index