Quilombolas
Quilombola is the denomination that characterizes those remnants of the Quilombos communities, who were constituted from the struggle of resistance and liberation of the judgment of the slavery that weighed on them from Brazil Colony.
For centuries, blacks were captured in different African countries and forcibly brought to Brazil, where they were enslaved and subjected to hard work and poor living conditions. Thousands of these people reacted by fleeing the shackles and constituted true communities, called Quilombos, with their own organization, economy and customs.
The Federal Constitution, in its art. 68, of the Transitory Acts, recognizes the existence of the remnants of the communities of the quilombos and their definitive property, determining that the State issues the respective titles.
Decree No. 4,887, dated November 20, 2003, regulates the procedure for identification, recognition, delimitation, demarcation and titling of quilombos. The Normative Instruction INCRA nº 49, of September 29, 2008, and the Ordinance of the Palmares Foundation nº 98, of November 26, 2007, determine how such procedures will be given.
Even today, very few quilombola communities had their territories identified, recognized and titled. There are constant attacks from agribusiness sectors. This sector aims to appropriate the lands of the quilombolas in order to satiate the greed of profit, not caring about the people, communities, customs and organization developed in the history of struggle, resistance for freedom and the right to live well.
