Race and slavery in the Middle East
Subtitle: histories of trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
By: edited by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cairo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789774163982
Subjects: Race relations; Slaves; Blacks; Social conditions; Slavery; History
Notes: "Dar el Kutub No. 2372/10"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the study of slavery in nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean / Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno; title: Muhammad Ali's first army: the experiment in building an entirely slave army / Emad Ahmed Helal; title: Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as shown in the 1848 census / Terence Walz; title: African slaves in nineteenth-century rural Egypt: a preliminary assessment / Kenneth M. Cuno; title: "My ninth master was a European": enslaved blacks in European households in Egypt, 1798-1848 / George Michael La Rue; title: Magic, theft in arson: the life and death of an enslaved African woman in Ottoman Izmit / Y. Hakan Erdem; title: Slavery and social life in nineteenth-century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum / Ahmad Alawad Sikainga; title: Enslaved and emancipated Africans on Crete / Michael Ferguson; title: Black, kinless, and hungry: manumitted female slaves in Khedival Egypt / Liat Kozma; title: Slaves or siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim's duologue's about the family / Eve M. Troutt Powell.