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Black ivory and white or the story of el Zubeir Pasha, slaver and sultan

Black ivory and white or the story of el Zubeir Pasha, slaver and sultan

C. Jackson, H.

Paperback

Historical FiguresAfrican HistoryGeneral Europe

ISBN10: 9353704685
ISBN13: 9789353704681
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Across the Upper Nile region, ivory and human lives moved as currency. Power was bought in chains. H. C. Jackson follows the rise and shadowy influence of el Zubeir Pasha, a trader-turned-ruler whose name sits at the crossroads of empire, commerce, and coercion in 19th century Sudan. Part historical biography and part Victorian travel narrative, this classic history reprint maps the tangled realities of the African slave trade and the Islamic slave trade alongside the hard bargaining of Sudan sultanate politics. It sits close to the making of modern Sudan, where Egyptian-Ottoman reach, local sultanates, and caravan economies collided. The narrative preserves the Victorian eye: confident, detailed, and sometimes unsettling, yet invaluable for tracing how policy and profit turned into violence on the ground. Jackson writes with the immediacy of his age, capturing how distant boardrooms, desert routes, and river ports fed a system that shaped the Upper Nile and echoed through later crises. Readers interested in Gordon of Khartoum, the collapse of old authorities, and Mahdi rebellion history will recognise the pressures building behind the headlines of the era. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For African history students, curious general readers, and classic-literature collectors seeking an unabridged classic edition to anchor a serious shelf, Black Ivory and White stands as a bracing document: morally urgent, historically revealing, and uncomfortably relevant.

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