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Introduction: The Study of Slavery in Nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean
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The Counting of Locals, Outsiders, and Slaves The Counting of Locals, Outsiders, and Slaves
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Origins of Trans-Saharan Africans Origins of Trans-Saharan Africans
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Barabira Barabira
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Sudaniyyin Sudaniyyin
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Habasha Habasha
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Takarna Takarna
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Al-Jamaliyya: Thriving Commercial and Religious Hub Al-Jamaliyya: Thriving Commercial and Religious Hub
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Abdin, A Residential Area Abdin, A Residential Area
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Single Women, Widows, and Women without Conjugal Partners Single Women, Widows, and Women without Conjugal Partners
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Women and Men with Partners Women and Men with Partners
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The Abdin Shantytown The Abdin Shantytown
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The Census as a Prism The Census as a Prism
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Notes Notes
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2 Sudanese, Habasha, Takarna, and Barabira: Trans-Saharan Africans in Cairo as Shown in the 1848 Census*
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Published:February 2011
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Abstract
There is little accounting of enslaved and emancipated trans-Saharan Africans in the country's cities and villages. The census registers and their history are described by Kenneth Cuno and Michael Reimer and have since been utilized by them and a growing number of scholars. The shaykhs of the residential quarters were relied upon to question the heads of ordinary households about their members. The households of the notables were exempt from the intrusive inquiries of census-takers. The palaces of the ruling family had many more servants and slaves. Ibrahim Pasha's Qasr al-Ali palace, for example, housed 233 slaves, according to Dr. J. Colucci's statistics. While children of free men and slave women were usually identified as free, the children of Egyptian women by still-enslaved men might incorrectly be listed as among the enslaved.
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