ملخص الجهاز:
/ Research Notes King Zumbi and the Male Movement in Brazil / Three great regions of America deserve a Muslim's attention because of their Islamic past: Brazil in South America; the Caribbean, which scarcely has been explored in this respect; and the United States.
Hausa slaves, known as US&t in Brazil, were generally Muslims who retained their faith for as long as they could and at times were able to convert other captives to it, Alu/a is the term for a black imam in Rio de Janeiro; Lessano is a Brazilian term for an Imam or a leader in prayer; and Musulmi (and also Male) is the name for Muslims in the state of Bahia.
An Ussa (Hausa) revolt occupied the Brazilian authorities during 1807-9; an uprising occurred in the state of Espf ritu Santo during the early 1800s; Rio de Janeiro was plagued during 1823-24 and again in 1876 with lawlessness; in 1830 and 1832 still other insurrections broke out in Bahia, at Ilheus, a coastal city to the south of Salvador, the chief port and capital of Bahia; and Maranhao to the north suffered unrest in 1853.
By 1905, before all of the Afro-Brazilians actually born in Africa had passed away, one-third of all ex-slaves and their descendants who lived in the state of Bahia were said to be Muslim; by 1910, it was calculated that at least twenty to thirty thousand Muslims still lived in Brazil.