# Revolts  
Generally speaking, quilombos did represent a more ambiguous form of rebellion, unlike revolts in a strict sense. Not all revolts threatened to destroy the slavery regime, with many only interested in correcting excessive tyranny and reducing oppression to a tolerable level, claiming rights to specific benefits sometimes the recovery of lost benefits - or punishing particularly cruel masters and overseers.  
Although the quilombo was a form of collective resistance to persist throughout the long history of slavery in Brazil, revolts were more common in the nineteenth century. Slavery in Brazil reached its climax in that period, spreading throughout the various sectors of society and the rural and urban economy. It was during the first half of the century that the highest number of Africans landed in Brazil. Despite the ban on the transatlantic slave trade in 1831, the influx continued until 1850, with estimations suggesting that around 800,000 Africans arrived in Brazil over the course of the nineteen years in which the trade was illegal, and a total of 2,000,500 arrived in the first half of the century. The trade was stimulated by the growth of slavery in Brazil, and the latter by the destruction of the plantation economy (especially sugarcane and coffee) during the Haitian Revolution.  
The high proportion of slaves in the population, and a high proportion of Africans among slaves, reinforced the collective identity and the disposition for revolt. This does not mean that crioulo (or Brazilian-born) slaves were passive. Apart from fleeing, forming quilombos and, to a lesser extent, rebelling, they also became involved in movements initiated by other social sectors, such as anti-Portuguese conspiracies and revolts held throughout Brazil from the end of the eighteenth century, or the federalist and liberal/republican uprisings in the 1830-40s. With the decline of the African slave population upon the end of trade in 1850, crioulo involvement in slave revolts grew, particularly in the final years of the slavery regime.