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Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.

Slave soldiers --- Soldiers --- History --- Enslaved soldiers

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The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army, the men who fought in all the battles, served as interpreters, military recruiters, and ethnic ambassadors throughout the campaign, and who were the real victors at the Battle of Omdurman. Making use of both published contemporary accounts and unpublished primary sources located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, 'Slaves of Fortune' provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces. Ronald M. Lamothe is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Slave soldiers --- Esclaves soldats --- History --- Histoire --- Sudan --- Great Britain --- Soudan --- Grande-Bretagne --- Colonies --- Egypt. --- Military life. --- Soldiers --- مصر. --- Enslaved soldiers --- Egyptian Army --- Egyptian Ground Forces --- Jaysh al-Miṣrī --- Qūwwāt al-Baḥrīyah al-Miṣrīyah --- جيش المصري --- قوات البرية المصرية --- Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan. --- Battle of Omdurman. --- River War. --- Sudanese soldiers. --- battles. --- ethnic ambassadors. --- front line troops. --- imperial forces. --- interpreters. --- military recruiters.