Despite their differences, quilombos and uprisings often converged. In the prosperous mining region of Minas Gerais, various governors were attuned to such a possibility. In 1756, for example, a slave conspiracy was believed to be led by fugitive slaves (Moura, 1981, pp. 112-113; Vallejos, 1985, pp. 24-25). Enslaved people who had fled their masters were also mixed with those who had revolted in uprisings in Bahia in the first half of the nineteenth century. In São Mateus in the province of Espírito Santo, in 1827, fugitive slaves threatened to mobilize slaves from farms to invade the town, but the authorities snuffed the movement out at its source. In the district of Viana, in Maranhão, over two hundred slaves from quilombo São Benedito do Céu came to occupy various farms, inciting their slaves to rise in 1867. (Almada, 1984 p. 167; Araújo, 1994). These episodes suggest that the authorities were correct to believe that a large slave uprising could have its origins in a quilombo.