Unlike African slavery in Europe and the Americas, slavery in the
Sudan and other parts of Africa persisted well into the twentieth
century. Sudanese slaves served Sudanese masters until the region
was conquered by the Turks, who practiced slavery on a larger,
institutional scale. When the British took over the Sudan in 1898,
they officially emancipated the slaves, yet found it impossible to
replace their labor in the country's economy. This pathfinding
study explores the process of emancipation and the development of
wage labor in the Sudan under British colonial rule. Ahmad Sikainga
focuses on the fate of ex-slaves in Khartoum and on the efforts of
the colonial government to transform them into wage laborers. He
probes into what colonial rule and city life meant for slaves and
ex-slaves and what the city and its people meant for colonial
officials. This investigation sheds new light on the legacy of
slavery and the status of former slaves and their descendants. It
also reveals how the legacy of slavery underlies the current ethnic
and regional conflicts in the Sudan. It will be vital reading for
students of race relations and slavery, colonialism and
postcolonialism, urbanization, and labor history in Africa and the
Middle East.
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