XIX Slaves

The contact and the social interaction between the indians and the blacks had resulted in the incorporation and the exchange of elements of the material and incorporeal culture. Quilombolas had learned with the indians some secrets of ' ' matas' ' allowing them to run away and to win the obstacles with more success. Moreover, they had fought together in one of the main popular rebellions of the country in century XIX, the Cabanagem. Exactly being citizens to a series of limitations and violncias imposed for the escravista system, the black slaves had searched the construction of certain spaces that allowed them to conquer freedom and autonomy moments. Examples of this are the escapes, the rebellions and, mainly, the quilombos. These are facts that demonstrate that the slave never exerted a passive paper in Brazilian history. It was throughout centuries XVIII and XIX that most of the quilombos in the current one Been of Par was formed.

When running away for these aldeamentos, also known for mocambos, the slave conquered the guarantee of autonomy and freedom of action and movement. According to historian Vicente Salles, the escape for the mocambos represented, at the beginning, a difficult and risky solution. The slave ventured itself alone, going to take shelter, many times, in aboriginal villages. With the time, they had learned if to organize. The escape started to be a collective strategy of resistance to the escravista regimen. Personages had appeared as the acoutadores, that if puted in charge to direct the groups of fugitives for the quilombos and if they had become the main enemies of the proprietors of slaves. Organized the escape, the quilombos had grown quickly, therefore they were the main focus of attraction of blacks who escaped of the cities and the farms. The escape of slaves became a continuous process and routine from the second half of century XVIII and beginning of the XIX, when they had also increased the notice on the quilombos in the local press. edge.