Bakhïta's martyrdom was her experience as a slave and, as the pamphlets about her printed by the Canossian Daughters of Charity emphasize, the loss of her childhood and her identity caused by her enslavement. … There is a transforming power in this identification with Bakhïta's alienation and suf- fering, a statement about the honor that can come from having been a slave.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 1068