The members of the Society were also well aware that they had public opinion on their side. The pressure they exerted, which often had the sup- port of members of Parliament, resulted in the Anglo-Egyptian Convention of 1877, which abolished the trade in African slaves in all territory held by the Egyptian government, although it did not outlaw the institution of slav- ery itself. The Anti-Slavery Convention was posted by decree throughout Egypt's cities and the Sudan, and allowed for the creation of slave trade bureaus in Cairo, Alexandria, the Delta, and Upper Egypt.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 658