The Revolt Ends
Towards the end of the revolution, most of the former slaves themselves started to turn into the very masters they despised and started to break down as a community.
In 879, after the revolt in Persia was settled, al-Muwaffaq came back and continued to wage war on the rebels. In 881, the better-trained and better-equipped Abbasid army surrounded and outnumbered the Zanj on all sides. With the capture and execution of ʻAlī after the fall of the Zanj capital city of al-Mukhtara, the revolt ended.
In the end, "most of the Zanj joined al-Muwaffaq, but not all. Over 1000 died in the desert of exhaustion and thirst, trying to flee the embattled Iraqi territory. Others remained unsubdued in southern Iraq after their leader was killed; they continued to rob, plunder, and murder throughout Abbasid space until they either joined the Abbasid or died refusing to be anyone's soldier."
By the tenth century, instead of using slaves as a sign of treaty between two cities, private trade was used.
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