Description: Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their cultural, social, economic, religious, and domestic lives in Salvador.
Brief description: Joao Jose Reis teaches at the Federal University of Bahia and has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan.
Review Quotes: In the course of explaining the causes and context of the uprising, Reis provides a fascinating social history of urban life and the African community in a city that was (and is) one of the most important centers of African culture in the Americas.
--Barbara Weinstein, American Historical Review