In his book, Reis states, “Bahian society breathed politics, shook in unrest, and the black community was not outside this process.” Although there were cases where there were more successful African freemen above those people considered to be poor white people.
In Reis’ opinion, the ethnic identity of the Africans “constituted the focal point for their break with the white man’s world.” He analyzed the role the Islam played in the uprising, as well as the events themselves and the goals of the revolt. A group of free and slave Africans set out to teach and spread Islamic ideas among the African population of Salvador in Bahia. The most interesting part is when Reis analyzes how the ideas contained in the Koran were well suited for slaves. Islam had to be appealing as an alternative worldview because of its sympathy for the exploited, as it had proved to be in