But Egyptian or Muslim figures whose names were connected to sub-Saharan Africa were not similarly monumentalized as explorers and liberators of Africa, and were almost always implicated as agents in the slave trade. A national hero to many Egyptians, Fawzï could never shake off the stigma of his having traded in slaves when governor of Equatoria; this fact made him as repre- hensible to British authorities as his participation in the `Uräbï rebellion and kept him from gaining the back pay he had accrued while a prisoner in the Sudan.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 656