Traços da formação do Quilombo de Bom Jardim (1876 – 2004): uma análise a partir da perspectiva da longa duração

Abstract

This work had the purpose to know better the formation of the quilombo of Bom Jardim, that is a quilombo located in the plateau, in the vicinity of PA 370 (Rd. CuruaUna) approximately 29 km of the city of Santarém / PA. The quilombo, as a space for social struggle, was organized only in a juridical association called the Association of Remnant of Quilombo de Bom Jardim (ARQBOMJA), on July 27, 2003, whose objective is to fight for titling the lands, in view of the position historically unfavorable with regard to power relations, that these quilombola communities have been fighting for the right to be agents of their own history. The promulgation of the 1988 constitution and the need for regulation of Article 68 of that Constitution provoked technical and academic discussions that led to a revision of the classical concepts that dominated the historiography on slavery. In this process the scholars began to discuss the criteria for conceptualizing what would become a quilombola community, and this conceptualization placed the community of Bom Jardim as a quilombo, since it was constituted from the donated land - Bom Jardim site - in a testament by José Francisco Ferreira and his wife Maria Joaquina da Silva Ferreira to his slaves in 1876. However, the slaves were only free after the death of José Francisco Ferreira, who should also do the donation, which occurred according to (Annex IE II) in 1877. In view of this information, this work aims to analyze the process of formation of this quilombola space, conducting research on the social relations linked to the economic and political forces now dominant, based on testimonies that sediment information from past times, the history of the place, and that in turn, comes to be the resizing of the space endowed with and experiences. As a conclusion, this work adopted as a methodology, bibliographical research, documentary research and the use of oral history, and we will make a survey through paperwork documents; later the interviews with the older descendants of the quilombo of Bom Jardim were recorded through interviews, in the eagerness that such reports provide some information of the past, in order to make some premises about the constitution of said quilombo.