Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean PDF
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Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 1 10/12/10 11:49:44 AM Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 2 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean Edited by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 3 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM First published in 2010 by The American University in Cairo Press 113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt 420 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 www.aucpress.com Copyright © 2010 by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno Chapter 9, “Slaves or Siblings? Abdallah al-Nadim’s Dialogues about the Family,” was originally published under the same title in: Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem, and Ursula Wokök, eds., Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002), 155–66. Reproduced by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Dar el Kutub No. 2372/10 ISBN 978 977 416 398 2 Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth- Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean / Edited by Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010 p. cm. ISBN 978 977 416 398 2 1. Slavery—Egypt—Social conditions I. Walz, Terence (ed.) II. Cuno, Kenneth (ed.) III. Title 306.362096203 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 15 14 13 12 11 10 Designed by Fatiha Bouzidi Printed in Egypt Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 4 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM To our mentors In memory of Richard Greenfield of Oxford and Asmara, who first intro- duced me to the study of Africa and its history, and Daniel F. McCall of Boston University, who was instrumental in opening up the multiple paths to understanding its people. Terence Walz To Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot of UCLA, who introduced me to the study of Egyptian history, and in memory of Robert Cruden of Lewis and Clark College, who enabled me to imagine becoming a historian. Kenneth M. Cuno Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 5 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 6 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM Contents Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place Names ix List of Maps and Illustrations xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean 1 Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno 1. Muhammad Ali’s First Army: The Experiment in Building an Entirely Slave Army 17 Emad Ahmed Helal 2. Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as Shown in the 1848 Census 43 Terence Walz 3. African Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment 77 Kenneth M. Cuno 4. “My Ninth Master was a European”: Enslaved Blacks in European Households in Egypt, 1798–1848 99 George Michael La Rue vii Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 7 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM 5. Magic, Theft, and Arson: The Life and Death of an Enslaved African Woman in Ottoman İzmit 125 Y. Hakan Erdem 6. Slavery and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Turco-Egyptian Khartoum 147 Ahmad Alawad Sikainga 7. Enslaved and Emancipated Africans on Crete 171 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 217 Eve M. Troutt Powell Bibliography 229 Index 253 viii Contents Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 8 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM Note on Transliteration and Personal and Place Names Transliteration of Arabic words follows the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) style, but without the use of diacritics and with all but medial and ending ayns and hamzas eliminated. Transliteration of Turkish and Greek words follows modern conventions. Place names are rendered in their familiar English forms if such exist. Our authors have used more than one system in rendering personal names, reflecting the way they appear in the sources as well as the differences between Arabic and Turkish. ix Walz_Cuno_Slavery Final.indd 9 10/12/10 11:49:46 AM
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