| To meet the demand for plantation labor, these captured Zanj slaves were shipped to the Arabian peninsula and the Near East, among other areas. |
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| In the 9th and 10th centuries, the black Zanj slaves may have constituted at least a half of the total population of lower Iraq. |
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| Slave labor in East Africa was drawn from the Zanj, Bantu peoples that lived along the East African coast. |
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| The Zanj were for centuries shipped as slaves by Arab traders to all the countries bordering the Indian Ocean. |
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| The Zanj who were taken as slaves to the Middle East were often used in strenuous agricultural work. |
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| In his opinion, although a few runaway slaves did join the revolt, the majority of the participants were Arabs and free Zanj. |
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| Many other people were imported into the region, besides Zanj. |
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| The trade in European slaves reached a peak in the 10th century following the Zanj rebellion which dampened the use of African slaves in the Arab world. |
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| Zanj also worked the salt mines of Mesopotamia, especially around Basra. |
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