# Abolition and slave revolts  
Slave rebellion did not, however, develop just around religious ideas and symbols. The wave of political and ideological transformations sweeping the Atlantic world in the so-called Age of Revolution influenced black rebellion in the Americas, including Brazil. Although the so-called 1798 Revolt of the Tailors in Bahia was led by free and freed men of colour, who were mostly artisans and soldiers, some slaves also took part. French in inspiration, the revolt's objectives pointed to an end to racial discrimination and, although timidly, an end to slavery. The slave revolution in Saint-Domingue (1791-1804) also had repercussions in Brazil, although not as strongly felt as in the Caribbean. News reports for 1814 suggest that rebel slaves in Bahia spoke of following the example of the revolutionary island. The border between Brazil and French Guyana also witnessed intensive agitation among the enslaved, rumours of uprisings and especially mass flights at the turn of the nineteenth century, although no significant revolt. Haiti was, in fact, mostly present in the minds of free men of colour in Brazil, to protest against racial discrimination, and in  
those of fearful authorities and masters in what they referred to as 'Haitianism' (Mattoso, 1969; Tavares, 1975; Reis and Gomes, 2009, pp. 284-313).