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The Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention or Anglo-Egyptian Convention for the Abolition of Slavery in 1877 officially banned the slave trade to Sudan, thus formally putting an end on the import of slaves from Sudan. [69] [71] Sudan was at this time the main provider of male slaves to Egypt.
Despite the British outlawing the slave trade in 1833, Turco-Egyptian troops of Muhammad Ali of Egypt continued to export approximately 20,000 slaves annually from Sudan. Merchant princes such as Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur , appointed khedive in 1873, controlled trade in Bahr el Ghazal and the routes to Kordofan and Darfur .
The Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention, also known as Anglo-Egyptian Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade or Anglo-Egyptian Convention for the Abolition of Slavery was a treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Khedivate of Egypt from 1877. The first version of 1877 was followed by an addition in ...
Joseph Cinqué (1814–1879), also known as Sengbe Pieh, leader of a slave rebellion on the slave ship La Amistad and defendant in the subsequent Supreme Court case United States v. Amistad in 1839. Joseph Jackson Fuller (1825–1908), one of the earliest slaves to be freed in Jamaica , initially under the partial freedoms of the 1833 Slavery ...
Sudanese telegraph stamp depicting camel caravan (1898) Map of Bir Natrun, a stop on the trade route that was known as a valuable source of rock salt (1925) [1]. Darb El Arba'īn (Arabic: درب الاربعين) (also called the Forty Days Road, for the number of days the journey was said to take in antiquity) is the easternmost of the great north–south Trans-Saharan trade routes.
The 'Mamluk Sultanate' is a modern historiographical term. [11] [12] Arabic sources for the period of the Bahri Mamluks refer to the dynasty as the 'State of the Turks' (Dawlat al-Atrak or Dawlat al-Turk) or 'State of Turkey' (al-Dawla al-Turkiyya).
Until its gradual suppression in the 1860s, the slave trade was the most profitable undertaking in Sudan and was the focus of Egyptian interests in the country. The government encouraged economic development through state monopolies that had exported slaves, ivory, and gum arabic.
Egyptian slave owners (10 P) ... Anglo-Egyptian Slave Trade Convention; B. Bahri harem; Baqt; Burji harem; E. Turco-Egyptian conquest of Sudan (1820–1824) F ...