Os novos pretos do Santo Antônio: implicações do retorno de remanescentes urbanizados à comunidade quilombola Santo Antônio dos Pretos (Grajaú/MA) - 1979 a 2012

Abstract

The Santo Antônio dos Pretos community emerged from the purchase of land called “Fazenda Santo Antônio”, located in the municipality of Grajaú-MA by matriarch Inácia Maria de Araújo, a former slave who bought it from a farmer in the region named Herculano Barros on May 30th of 1921 for the value of 40 thousand réis - an area that currently corresponds to 3,700 hectares, due to conflicts that started in the 1970s, a small portion of the residents leaves the locality, returning only from 2005 and bringing with it the process of retaking the territory by the remnants and the struggle for certification of title. In view of the scenario, in this dissertation we present our understanding of the profile of the relationships built between residents who remained and those who returned, using the methodology of collecting oral reports and researching notarial documents relating to this land, as well as association documents, images, among others; because they enable us to make socio-historical configurations from the return, in 2005, of urbanized remnants to the Santo Antônio dos Pretos quilombola community, in Grajaú-MA, seeking to analyze the relationship between returnees and residents who remained, as well as the new configurations cultural, territorial, religious and family that with the return of urbanized remnants.