From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient EgyptSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty fifth Dynasty in 671 B. C. by an invading Assyrian army. Redford traces the