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Following months of investigation by the Women and Children Protection Section of the Liberia National Police into allegations of rape and impregnation of a girl at the SOS Children’s Villages in Liberia, two of the accused...
The Zanj rebellion of Black slaves, which took place in lower Iraq from 868 to 883 CE, is one of the remarkable episodes of Medieval Islamic history that often goes untold. Much of what we know about the rebellion comes from the historical works of Al-Tabari ( Annals of Prophets and Kings) and Al Mas’udi Murudj al-Dahab. According to these accounts, in about 869 CE, Ali bin Muhammad, a slave-descended Arab, journeyed into the slave quarters in the marshlands East to Basrah, where Black slaves were employed by large landowners to dig away at the nitrous surface soil, reclaiming the land bene...