But the perceived chaos in the Sudan was not the same, many felt, as the situation in Egypt. In Egypt there was no war, and many nationalist thinkers believed the British to be conflating the two.Their focus on slavery asserted the primacy of Egyptian voices—it had to be left to Egyptians to decide. Others felt the British abolitionists, with little sense of or feeling for the dif- ferences between local custom in Egypt or the Sudan, were crossing into interiors where they had no business.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 691