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 Walz, Terence.
Other author Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press,
Descriptionxiv, 264 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., map, plan ; 24 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-252) and index.
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LCCN 2011282186
ISBN9789774163982
ISBN9774163982

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