Luísa Mahin

Luísa Mahin (born in the early 19th century) was a formerly enslaved woman of African origin. A pivotal figure in the abolitionist movement in Brazil, mother to Luís Gama, she is believed to have taken part in the organization of the slave uprisings that shook the province of Bahia in the first decades of the nineteenth century. She was supposedly a major player and strategist in the Malê Revolt, in which she helped inform the others involved through written communications in Arabic.

Despite early XX historians disputed Luiza's involvement with the revolta and even her existence, modern scholars have been able to prove her feats through historiography