Eastern Slave Trade from a Western Perspective: Analytical study of the novel «Bakhita» by Véronique Olmi

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Al-alsun Suez canal University

Abstract

Slavery is one of the most miserable periods in human history. Over two centuries, African peoples tested all kinds of suffering: brutal hunting, killing, and torture by the Europeans. However, at the present time, many voices in the West claim that a lot of exaggerations and fallacies surround European slavery and that the world should pay more attention to the slave trade practiced by Arabs for more than ten centuries as it is more ferocious and widespread One of these voices is the writer of the novel under study. Through her story, she gives a detailed description of the slave trade in Sudan in the second half of the nineteenth century. We try through our research to present her point of view and analyze the characters she drew in her novel to determine the extent of prejudice or fairness with which she addressed this thorny issue.

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