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"A must read for any social historian of the region."—The American Historical Review
The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperback
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the Mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on Western language sources. In recent decades new sources have become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in Western archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region.
Contributors:
Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Y. Hakan Erdem, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Michael Ferguson, Concordia University, Canada
Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Liat Kozma, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
George Michael La Rue, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ahmad A. Sikainga, Ohio State University, USA
Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Terence Walz Independent scholar, Washington, DC, USA
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
Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno
1. Muhammad Ali's First Army: The Experiment in Building an Entirely Slave Army
Emad Ahmed Helal
2. Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as Shown in the 1848 Census
Terence Walz
3. African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment
Kenneth M. Cuno
4. "My Ninth Master was a European": Enslaved Blacks in European Households in Egypt, 1798-1848 99
George Michael La Rue
5. Magic, Theft, and Arson: The Life and Death of an Enslaved African Woman in Ottoman İzmit
Y. Hakan Erdem
6. Slavery and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum
Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
7. Enslaved and Emancipated Africans on Crete
Michael Ferguson
8. Black, Kinless, and Hungry: Manumitted Female Slaves in Khedival Egypt 197
Liat Kozma
9. Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim's Dialogues about the Family
Eve M. Troutt Powell
Bibliography
Index
