Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean

Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean / edited by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno.

Other author/creator	Walz, Terence.
Other author/creator	Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2010.
Description	xiv, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, map, plan ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Slavery--Middle East --History --19th century. Enslaved persons--Middle East --Social conditions --19th century. Black people--Middle East --History --19th century. Black people--Middle East --Social conditions --19th century. Middle East--Race relations --History --19th century.

Contents	Introduction: the study of slavery in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean / Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno -- Muhammad Ali's first army: the experiment in building an entirely slave army / Emad Ahmed Helal -- Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as shown in the 1848 census / Terence Walz -- African slaves in nineteenth-century rural Egypt: a preliminary assessment / Kenneth M. Cuno -- "My ninth master was a European": enslaved blacks in European households in Egypt, 1798-1848 / George Michael La Rue -- Magic, theft in arson: the life and death of an enslaved African woman in Ottoman Izmit / Y. Hakan Erdem -- Slavery and social life in nineteenth-century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga -- Enslaved and emancipated Africans on Crete / Michael Ferguson -- Black, kinless, and hungry: manumitted female slaves in Khedival Egypt / Liat Kozma -- Slaves or siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim's duologue's about the family / Eve M. Troutt Powell.
General note	"Dar el Kutub No. 2372/10"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-252) and index.
ISBN	9789774163982
ISBN	9774163982

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HT1316 .R23 2010	✔ Available	Place Hold