Da fazenda São João à comunidade quilombola Invernada dos Negros: terra, trajetória e permanência

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the formation of the Black People’s Wintering Quilombola Community, situated in the city of Campos Novos and in the city of Abdon Batista – SC. This work approaches the peopling process by the black people in the upland areas of Santa Catarina state, where the São João farm was located. Its owners, Mr. Matheus José de Souza and Mrs. Pureza Emilia da Silva, conditionally freed their slaves in 1866. In 1877 the third part of the farm was inherited, according to Mr. Souza’s will, by the people who were formerly slaves and by some of the slaves who were freed later on. Regarding the forms of resistance and the very meaning of freedom for the black people who were slaved and freed in the farm, we managed to know what happened during the post abolition period. For this, we analyzed church, notarial and judicial documents, and thus we were able to determine the life trajectory of the legatees and their offspring in order to understand the formation of this black people’s community, the residence in their inherited land and how this community relates to its natural environment.