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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.
Prince was the slave of a Choctaw man named Richard Harkins. Angered that his owner failed to give his slaves a Christmas celebration, Prince brutally murdered him and then unceremoniously dumped the body into the river in 1858. [160] [161] Prince Boston (born 1750), sued for and won his freedom in a 1773 U.S. jury trial
Slaves from the Fatimid Caliphate (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Egyptian slaves" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
According to the Bible, Hagar was the Egyptian slave of Sarai, Abram's wife (whose names later became Sarah and Abraham). Sarai had been barren for a long time and sought a way to fulfill God's promise that Abram would be father of many nations, especially since they had grown old, so she offered Hagar to Abram to be his concubine.
Egyptian slaves (5 C, 13 P) O. Egyptian slave owners (10 P) Pages in category "Slavery in Egypt" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
The document lists their names, the father's name, as well as a high official, a place or an institution to which they originally belonged. There is a note in another column as to whether the person is male or female. There follows an administrative statement, a place where the case was ticked off with a note of where the refugees are currently.
The name Šp-ra is found in a list of slaves in Egypt during the reign of Sobekhotep III (around 1745 BCE [13]). This list is on Papyrus Brooklyn 35.1446, in the Brooklyn Museum. The museum states that "Scholars assume that this is a hieroglyphic transliteration of the Hebrew name Shiphra."
His name possibly indicates the same figure as Potiphera (Hebrew: פוטיפרע). Potiphar is the captain of the Egyptian king's guard who is said to have purchased Joseph [ 2 ] [ 3 ] as a slave and, impressed by his intelligence, makes him the master of his household.