International struggle against the slave trade in egypt in the late ottoman period

Abstract

The process of removing the widespread slave trade from the Province of Egypt which had long shores in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea began with the issuing of an act that prohibited slave trade by the British Parliament in 1873. An important treaty was signed by the British and Egyptian Governments on the 4th of August in 1877 in order to enact this law. New treaties would follow in 1885 and 1895 consecutively. This article displays the ways in which Egyptian and British authorities prepared reports and established a legal base to combat slave trade in Egypt. As part of the international struggle against slavery, the article exposes that, following the treaty that was signed with Britain. Egyptian Government managed to control and finally defeat slave trade in Egypt at the eve of the World War I. Slave trade was no more a significant issue for the Province of Egypt.