Como os nêgos dos palmares: uma nova história de resistência na serra da Barriga - AL

Abstract

This research deals with the struggle for freedom of the besiegers of the Serra da Barriga, in União dos Palmares, Alagoas. The space housed the largest settlement of runaway slaves of America, the Palmares, and for this reason in 1986 was recognized as a cultural and natural heritage of the nation. In 1988 he received the title of National Monument, which led to the dispossession of local land for the purpose of several scientific studies, reforestation and construction of a memorial park, a sort of themed museum that resembles in architecture and landscape the old building quilombo. Since then the residents Zone peasants of Alagoas Mata, one of the areas of greatest sugarcane production in the Northeast are experiencing labor restrictions and threats of expulsion by the State and the Black Movement. The situation is very similar to the time lived under the rule of local mill owners and is significantly also similar, as they themselves say, to time of the blacks of Palmares that lived in the place there is over 300 years, to flee of plantagens sugar cane for to live in freedom. The fight is for survival, for land and labor, guarantees of freedom for any farmer, that have been denied since the patrimonialization of the Serra da Barriga. The ethnographic research brings, therefore, the ownership of memory space and the everyday forms of resistance the peasant in conflict with national heritage and collective memory of the Black Movement. In this endeavor, the theories about the peasantry, especially in the Northeast, the campesinidade, everyday forms of peasant resistance and the triad memory, history and heritage were vital to this issue.