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Jul 24, 2020 · What Charles Hale’s adventures in Egypt suggest to us is that there are some powerfully important stories to be told about the history of free labor that place Reconstruction in a broader, global frame.
Feb 1, 2021 · On the morning of 25 August 1865, Charles Hale, consul-general of the United States for Egypt, boarded a small boat on the bank of the Nile near Cairo. He was rowed to the Island of Gezira where the Viceroy, Ismail Pacha, kept an official residence. Until this morning, Hale had been somewhat idle.
- Steven McGregor
- 2021
Charles Hale (1831–1882) of Boston was an American legislator and diplomat. Intermittently from 1855 to 1877, he served in the Massachusetts state House and Senate. He was Speaker of the House in 1859. In the 1860s he lived in Cairo, Egypt, as the American consul-general.
An excellent examination of his diplomacy is found in Afaf Lufti al-Sayyid Marsot, `The Porte and Ismail Pasha's Quest for Autonomy', Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt XII (1975), pp. 89-96.
This collection of papers, for the period 1858 to 1869, includes items relating to Hale's position as U.S. Consul-General in Egypt. Among these papers are copies of the rules of the Egyptian Assembly, a translation of an 1867 address of the President of the Assembly, an 1867 letter about Hale's trip to Jaffa to quell political disturbances, and ...
If our governments accept the project, it is that they are consenting to submit their subjects to the jurisdiction of an Egyptian tribunal, in view of the sufficiency of the guarantees that have been offered”(Statement of the American representative, Mr. Charles Hale, before the Commission of 1869 [28 Dec.].)
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Feb 1, 2021 · On the morning of 25 August 1865, Charles Hale, consul-general of the United States for Egypt, boarded a small boat on the bank of the Nile near Cairo. He was rowed to the Island of Gezira
