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Title 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
Published New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (293 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, photographs
Contents Cover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place Names; List of Maps and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowlogements; Introdution: 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, 1798-18485. Magic, Theft, and Arson: The Life and Death of an Enslaved African Woman in Ottoman İzmit; 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; Index
Summary New sources and research illuminate the individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
Black people
Black people -- Social conditions
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Middle East -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Walz, Terence, editor
Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950- editor.
ISBN 9781617974908
1617974900