Slave Rebellion in Brazil
Subtitle: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
Contributors: Arthur Brakel (Translator)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801852503
Subjects: Islamic studies; Revolutions & coups; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History - General History; Brazil; General; Latin America - South America; History / Latin America
First sentence: Slave Rebellion in Brazil is a considerably revised and expanded version of my book Rebeliao escrava no Brasil, first published in 1986 in Brazil.
Description: The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador.