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Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean /
In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterran...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | [International version]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 dialogues about the family / Eve M. Troutt Powell.