Despite the brutality of the situation, slave resistance did not waver. Although not the only forms of collective resistance under slavery, the most common were revolt and the formation of quilombos and mocambos, the terms used in Brazil for communities of fugitive slaves. Although many quilombos were formed gradually - by means of adhesion from individual fugitives or groups - others resulted from collective flights sparked by revolts in one or more plantations, mines or villages. This seems to have been the case for the famous quilombo of Palmares, whose initial nucleus was formed by a revolt in a mill in the captaincy of Pernambuco. Fugitives also incited rebellion among enslaved workers on plantations and farms, perfectly reflecting what we understand by the term 'revolt'.