Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, by Eve Troutt Powell

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By Eve Troutt Powell

within the overdue 19th century, an lively slave exchange sustained social and financial networks around the Ottoman Empire and all through Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. not like the Atlantic exchange, slavery during this zone crossed and combined racial and ethnic strains. Fair-skinned Circassian women and men have been as at risk of enslavement within the Nile Valley as have been young ones from Sudan or Ethiopia.
Tell This in My Memory opens up a brand new window within the examine of slavery within the sleek center East, taking over own narratives of slaves and slave vendors to make clear the anxieties and intimacies of private event. The framework of racial id built via those tales proves instrumental in explaining how international locations later confronted—or not—the legacy of the slave exchange. this present day, those vocabularies of slavery live to tell the tale for modern refugees whose pressured migrations frequently reflect the trips and stigmas confronted via slaves within the 19th century.

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