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54 POINTS !-The term Zanj referred to black slaves from the Swahili coast, many of whom worked on sugar plantations or cleared land for cultivation in southern Mesopotamia by the seventh century CE. True or False?

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Answer: True. The term was used by Muslim geographers to refer to the slaves from East Africa and the Swahili coast.

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