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If the Mahdi has got the Bahr Gazelle, and we evacuate the Soudan in his favour, the Anti-Slavery Society may as well close their office as to the suppression of the slave-trade in these parts, especially if we leave him the steamers.

— Charles George Gordon

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The judgments on this land [Egypt] are on account of its cruelties in respect to the slave trade.

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