All the great civilizations were imperial, Salah Hamad wrote, although many, like Spain in America or Britain in Australia, had butchered and com- mitted genocide; but England and the rest of Europe had developed a more sympathetic and humane colonization, exemplified in the abolitionists’ care for African blacks. Egyptians could also trace historical precedents for impe- rialism in their own history, and Hamad turned to the links with the Sudan

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 760