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Os Quilombos e a Rebelião Negra
1981
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Muito se estudou sobre a escravidão, suas causas e consequências. No entanto, pouco se sabe da importância do escravo como ser participante do contraditório processo de lutas e reajustes que caracterizou o sistema escravista. É como se o escravo não tivesse existido, não tivesse sido sujeito ativo e coletivo do sistema, ou seja, teria sido mero objeto passivo a observar a história... Mas longe de serem uma mancha isolada no processo histórico, as lutas dos escravos, sobretudo as quilombolas, exerceram uma fundamental importância na estrutura social e política do país.
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Clóvis Moura
Clóvis Moura
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Clóvis Steiger de Assis Moura, better known as Clóvis Moura, was a sociologist, journalist, historian, and writer. In the book Clay of Memory, Clóvis Moura talks about his childhood in the countryside, the Rio Parnaíba and myths of Piaui's folklore, such as the legend of the Cuia de Cabeça. He was influenced by Marxism, having developed the Sociology of Black Praxis. Clovis Moura questioned Gilberto Freyre's view of black passivity in Brazil, highlighting the quilombos' resistance to slavery. In his research he dealt with the slave rebellion and the formation of the quilombos. Drawing on Marx's theory, he analyzed the class struggle in the slave system. For Clovis Moura, Brazilian slave society was subdivided into two antagonistic classes: slaveholders (ruling class) and slaves (dominated class). Slaves produced material goods and wealth while slaveholders owned property and the means of production. After abolition, slaves, despite having produced the riches that underpinned the Brazilian economy, were not entitled to property. He militated for the Brazilian Communist Party and, in 1962, in the split of the party, migrated to PCdoB. It stood out for its pioneering militancy in the Brazilian black movement. Collaborated with articles for newspapers from Bahia and São Paulo.

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