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THE DEAD WEIGHT OF ISLAM IN THE WESTERN AND EASTERN SUDAN

of the Eastern Sudan, "If Baker's expedition should succeed in annexing the valley of the Nile to Egypt, the question arises, Would not the miserable condition of the natives, when subjected to all the atrocities of the White Nile slave traders, be worse under Egyptian dominion 1 The villages would be farmed out to tax collectors, the women, children, and boys carried off into slavery, and the free thought and feeling of the population placed under the dead weight of Islam."Little did even he anticipate the extent of two developments so quickly to follow; one, the rapid progress of Islam acros…