“My Ninth Master was a European”
“My Ninth Master was a European”
Enslaved Blacks in European Households in Egypt, 1798–1848
Many enslaved Africans lived in households headed by Europeans in Cairo and Alexandria during the nineteenth century. African slaves who were owned by the Europeans were generally Christians by culture, if not always by frequent church attendance. They were often diplomats, doctors, merchants, military officers, or employees of the Egyptian government. As migrants to Egypt, European masters and African slaves alike acculturated to local views and practices. The practice of taking a slave wife has counterparts in other cross-cultural and colonial situations, and similar domestic arrangements were made by Egyptian men with African slave women. The working-class Saint-Simonian Voilquin and the high-society Saint Elme each elicited interesting, detailed, and intimate information from their male and female sources about the lives of African slaves in European households.
Keywords: Cairo, diplomats, merchants, African slaves, Saint Elme
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