Brazil Fights Harvard To Reclaim African Rebels Skull After 190 Years

The remains were taken to the US during a slave revolt and held in a Harvard museum after racist studies In January 1835, wearing religious robes and carrying amulets inscribed with prayers and passages from the Quran, hundreds of African Muslims staged the most significant urban slave revolt in the more than 350 years of slavery in Brazil. About 600 Mals as Muslims of Yoruba origin were known attempted to seize control of Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state and then the countrys second most important city, but were ultimately defeated by the police, who killed 70 rebels.