The Zanj Rebellion
The Zanj Rebellion is one of the harshest African slave revolts during the Arab Slave Trade. From 869 thru 883 A.D.., hundreds of thousands died. East Africans called Zanj revolted against Iraqi slavers.
The rebellion began because of the brutality of the Arab Slave Trade
The slave revolt started in the salt marshes of Basra Iraq. For 14 years the slaves conquered cities, towns and villages. Those who opposed them suffered unimaginable horrors. These slaves were driven by vengeance.
When the city of Basra was sacked, its inhabitants were massacred. The Zanj founded a their own city state named, Al Mukhtarah. Several provinces in Iran also fell to them.
They crushed every Muslim army the Iraq Abbasid empire sent to defeat them. They produced their own currency, collected taxes and formed a navy.
Identifying the severed heads of loved ones in the Tigres and Euphrates rivers is how many got news of those trapped in Zanj territory.
The Iraqi rulers finally defeated the Zanj in 883 A.D.,
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Written by Michael Lambert (Co-Writer and creator of the Black History Man/Black Archaeologist series).
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