[2] In Piraja, in the outskirts of Salvador in Bahia, fugitive slaves and indigenous Tupinamba created a community in the woods called the Quilombo do Urubu.
[3][4] On December 15, the rebels captured a village in Cabula, a neighboring district to Piraja.
[3] Armed with "bows and arrows, knives, pitchforks, hatchets and spears," the rebels won the first engagement with the soldiers.
Afterwards, she, along with another leader named Antonio, was condemned to forced labor for her role in the uprising.
[6] Brazilian artist Dalton Paula's painting Zeferina depicts her.