Based on Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003).
Your task in this assignment is to write a 7-10-page paper in which you discuss the following: Egypts nationalist response to colonialism in general; the centrality of the issue of the Sudan to Egyptian nationalism- the fact that Egypt, though colonized by Great Britain, was itself eager to recolonize the Sudan; and the underlying centrality of the issue of slavery and race in the
historical relationship between Egypt and the Sudan as reflected in the materials on the subject assembled and discussed by the author, including those emanating from the 1894 slavery trial involving Zanuba and five other enslaved Sudanese women in Cairo. How intimately was slavery connected to the personal and cultural identities of the Egyptian elite population of the time? Also, explain the sense in which, according to Dr. Powell, these
women were vortexes for Victorian conceptions of race, colonialism, and the family man. What issues did the trial raise for Great Britains civilizing mission in Egypt, and Egypts civilizing mission for the Sudan? What are the historical legacies of slavery in both Egypt and the Sudan?
