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.