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| Title: | Economic and Political Aspects of the Slave Trade in Ethiopia and the Sudan in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century |
| Author: | Moore-Harell, Alice |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 2-3 |
| Pages: | 407-421 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Sudan Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | slave trade abolition of slavery History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/220348 |
| Abstract: | The second half of the 19th century witnessed repeated attempts by the rulers of Ethiopia and the Turco-Egyptian Sudan to suppress the slave trade by secular legislation, without abolishing slavery itself. In the Sudan, no religious law prohibited trade in slaves, while slavery itself was permitted in the Koran. In Ethiopia, on the other hand, both slavery and trade in slaves were forbidden by ecclesiastical law; despite this the rulers adopted some prohibitive measures against the slave trade, but not against slave ownership. In the Sudan, where the Egyptian khedive's reign depended on British support, drastic measures were undertaken to abolish the slave trade. As a result, an armed struggle developed in the late 1870s between slave traders and the Turco-Egyptian government. Despite the government's military success in this struggle, trading in slaves nevertheless continued; by the early 1880s, the trade had revived almost to its previous magnitude. In Ethiopia, where the rulers were less vulnerable to outside pressure, no major conflict developed with the slave traders, as the partial and halfhearted measures adopted to eradicate the trade were generally ineffective. Slavery and slave trade continued in both countries into the 20th century. Notes, ref. |
