War and Slavery in Sudan (The Ethnography of Political Violence)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812217629
Subjects: Slavery & emancipation; Slavery; History; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Sudan; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Africa; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science-Slavery; Civil War, 1983-; Racism
First sentence: The roots of Sudan's unresolved civil war have a long history, but the modern context relating to the current wave of slavery was set in times of alien intrusion, starting with Turco-Egyptian rule in the nineteenth century (1821-81) through Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule (1898-1956).