Zanj revolt and canal digging

[Jim Webster]

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/enslaved-africans-led-a-decade-long-rebellion-1-200-years-ago-in-iraq-new-evidence-suggests

Apparently the Zanj revolted because they were forced to dig canals (very very abrupt paraphrase)

[Duncan Head]

Nice find, Jim.

[Imperial Dave]

Or were they revolting because they had just dug the canals....

[Jim Webster]

Nice find, Jim.

Pure serendipity. I suppose the Zanj is one of those movements I've always felt I wanted to learn more about at some point (probably because I may even have some of the figures suitable    ) so I might have noticed something that otherwise would have passed me by