Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan African in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-252) and index.

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 duologue's about the family / Eve M. Troutt Powell.