1835 witnessed the rebellion known as the Malé Revolt, the best known of all due to the ample documentation left behind (Reis, 2003).  
The Malé Revolt involved some 600 slaves and freed slaves, with some of them fighting for over four hours in the streets of Salvador. At least 70 died in the clashes and nine were killed by the opposing side. Once defeated, the rebels were punished with death sentences, whippings and deportation. The Muslim presence was widely documented, with the movement led by Muslim preachers mostly made up of Yoruba people. The term male comes from the Yoruba term İmàlẹ, meaning Muslim. Few members of other Islamized ethnic groups joined the uprising. A large number of Hausa - the major Muslim nation in Bahia at the time - were initially imprisoned, although mostly released due to a lack of evidence. From the turn of the twentieth century, several scholars suggest that this revolt gave continuity in Bahia to the jihad initiated in 1804 in Hausa territory. Although the ideology of the holy war may have inspired some of its leaders, there is no conclusive evidence that a jihad was declared in 1835. Unlike the conspiracy of 1807, no violent opposition to Catholicism, its symbols and followers was recorded. The main participants - of Yoruba extraction - did not have their own jihadist tradition in Africa, with many of the rebels being non-Muslim Yoruba.