A Hidra e os pântanos: quilombos e mocambos no Brasil (sécs. XVII-XIX)

Abstract

In all Latin American societies where runaway slaves shaped maroon communities alternatives economy and fighting for feedom lived together with many allinace forms involving wholi colonial society. It had occured also in slave areas in Brazil where the quilombolas (maroons) organized themselves in social and economic groups and communities in order to maintain their autonomy, otherwise it may include daily relations with indians, farmers, rural workers, colonial authorities and, mainly slaves. Although these strategies -- wich involved conflict and contradictory aspects -- the runaways gave sense to their lives as subjects of their own history- In this thesis the historical experience of maroon societies in colonial amazoniam region and Maranhão will be analized. Futher the cases studied will be compared with other colonial areas, foccusing how slave communities was articulated wich the brazilian colonial society as a whole represents a threat.