Successful Brazilian slave revolt

I’ve been thinking about Brazil , and the very real possibility of a successful slave revolt there. Pardos who I understand the mixed individuals with African and European dna,along with some Native dna and Africans themselves combined made up the majority of the country. (Slaves are suspected to have been 56% of the population in 1825) From what I can tell infighting between Mulattos and slaves caused them to be unable to launch a successful revolt. What if a catalyst were to occur that allowed some type of alliance between pardos and slaves for a large scale Haiti style slave revolt to take place in Brazil?
 
I’ve been thinking about Brazil , and the very real possibility of a successful slave revolt there. Pardos who I understand the mixed individuals with African and European dna,along with some Native dna and Africans themselves combined made up the majority of the country. (Slaves are suspected to have been 56% of the population in 1825) From what I can tell infighting between Mulattos and slaves caused them to be unable to launch a successful revolt. What if a catalyst were to occur that allowed some type of alliance between pardos and slaves for a large scale Haiti style slave revolt to take place in Brazil?

The Haitian Slave ratio was bigger and on smaller area and on an island. It won't be successful as far as I think. Or the slaves in Brazil need to have some former military background. Even that is hard...
 
The Haitian Slave ratio was bigger and on smaller area and on an island. It won't be successful as far as I think. Or the slaves in Brazil need to have some former military background. Even that is hard...
Actually, i would say Brazil's terrain as a whole could still be an advantage for the rebels if they have to defend against a foreign aggressor. Most of the urban infrastructure is situated on the coastline, while the interior can be both a hurdle against invading land armies and a refuge for the freedmen rebels in case the coast is attacked (the quilombos of the Brazilian countryside were only completely subdued around the same time slavery was abolished, after all; i could see the rebels trying to revive Palmares).
 
The Haitian Slave ratio was bigger and on smaller area and on an island. It won't be successful as far as I think. Or the slaves in Brazil need to have some former military background. Even that is hard...
Most do especially post Paraguayan war as slaves were often used as the backbone of the Brazilian army.
 
In fact a man named Candido da Fonseca Galvao was a very prominent Brazilian officer and even held his own volunteer corp in the Paraguayan war. He held a lot of popularity with African slaves because he was of noble descent from the African oyo empire(so much respect that when his father was a slave the slaves pooled their money to see his father be free.) he would’ve also had a lot of popularity with mulattos being a free man and all. What if after the Paraguayan war or after he was injured in the battle of tuiuiti Candido used his military experience,national focus on the war and his popularity to start a slave rebellion.
 
You already had massive quilombos like Palmares that essentially functioned as independent states for decades. I don't know if it's plausible for a slave revolt to conquer all of Brazil given how huge and diverse a country it is. Maybe a rebellion that captures a city or state like Salvador de Bahia?
 
You already had massive quilombos like Palmares that essentially functioned as independent states for decades. I don't know if it's plausible for a slave revolt to conquer all of Brazil given how huge and diverse a country it is. Maybe a rebellion that captures a city or state like Salvador de Bahia?
Yea hmmmm what about Southern Brazil? As I understand the secession movement that happened there was amongst Brazil’s most successful in their early years. It’s far enough from the seat of power in Brazil,though as I understand not many slaves existed further south. What if in the wake of the coffee and cotton boom instead of being intent on replacing Haiti in the sugar department north, their was a boom in cultivation of cotton south. A internal Brazilian slave trade as many owners moved further south along with importing straight from Africa,their would still be a lot of owners but hypothetically this could result in a large slave majority in south Brazil to feed the cultivation of cotton and coffee instead of European immigrants.
 
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