End of Slave Trade in Egypt

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 28, , language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the slave trade boom in Egypt and Sudan at the middle of the XIX. century and its following abolition by the Egyptian government in 1873. Several legal attempts of abolishing Egyptian slavery were made along the XIX century, before the period of the Veiled Occupation (1882). The paper reflects over the legal attempts to abolish slave trade and its effect on Sudanese society. Can somebody argue that the abolition of slavery in Egypt was due also to the higher risk of buying a slave, if compared to the low working wages?