ex-slavedealer

Updated: May 7, 2025

Osman was wily and experienced, and his counsel, had it been listened to by his chief, would have added to the difficulties of carrying the Mahdist stronghold by assault. I have some knowledge of that astute ex-slavedealer and trader's ways in the Eastern Soudan and elsewhere.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan