Posted on 06/05/2025 9:04:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Shatt al-Arab floodplain outside of Basra is marked with thousands of manmade earthen ridges and canals. Archaeologists have long suspected that these may have been part of an ancient agricultural system, but they did not know when or by whom it was built. New research has demonstrated that not only is this theory true, but that the massive infrastructure was dug by a huge labor force of enslaved Africans. The Associated Press reports that researchers identified more than 7,000 features spread across 300 square miles that formed an extensive farming network. Using radiocarbon dating and a technique called optically stimulated luminescence on finds from the sites, they were able to date the system's creation to the ninth century a.d. This was a time when the Abbasid Caliphate was exploiting enslaved Africans known as the "Zanj," traditionally thought to have been taken from the East African Swahili Coast. It is now thought that harsh conditions involved with creating this agricultural system may have directly provoked the famous a.d. 869 Zanj Rebellion, in which enslaved Black Africans revolted against the Abbasid state. The dating evidence indicates that the network was maintained until the mid-thirteenth century, suggesting that the use of slave labor likely continued for several centuries after the unsuccessful uprising. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity.
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Wait…
Are you saying that brown people OWNED OTHER brown people??!!
EVERYONE knows that only White Southern Americans in the 1800s were the ONLY ones who EVER owned brown slaves!!!!! /s
Right now, reading this, some Libtardnik teacher somewhere is peeing down her leg!!!
It is still going strong in that region.
Can personally confirm.
“…but they did not know when or by whom it was built. “
Doesn’t the question of who built a thing refer to the power center that brought it into being rather than the workforce used? This article seems to cross thread between the two .
(((YAWN))) More of the far left’s African Slaves built the entire civilization on the planet and then went back to living the good old primitive life.
Rapper Azelia Banks has been tweeting all week castigating Blacks for supporting “Palestine” given the history of Arab Muslim slavery. Check it out. She shows a historical knowledge that makes Thomas Friedman look like a homeless crackhead.
“Black Liberation Theology” (aka, Afro-centric mythology).
Everybody… EVERYBODY knows that black Africans had cities, higher mathematics, space travel, time travel, all that and more WAY before Afristotle, Playdoh and them other Greek homos!
- the Rev’und Al Charlatan.
They also flew stealth fighters around the pyramids. LOL!.
I heard about it but I just can’t see it.
It’s a shame that they didn’t also know about hysterectomies.
There are no descendants of black slaves in the Middle East because the moslems castrated all the males. Slaves were cheap.
Oh, I am sure. I’m so sick of leftists indoctrinating dumber leftists into asinine thinking and ignorance of history.
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