Trial records skewed scholarship by presuming every Muslim slave was a rebel
Evidence
Ramos and Nina Rodrigues, Kent suggests, erred in relying too much on the trial records of the defeated slaves and the personal papers and reports of Bahia’s police chief, Goncalves Martins. Both sources were biased by the presumption that “every Muslim was a rebel and every rebel a Muslim.” “The Male-led revolt of 1835,” Kent concludes, “will be understood in all of its aspects only through a most minute study of data relating to the intra-African relations within Bahia itself.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 769
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- QUESTION: Suggests a research path: re-examining primary records of slave revolts for source bias beyond Bahia.