Enslaved black women’s activism in colonial and postcolonial Brazil, in the Latin America context

• Autor(a) principal: Amoras, Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Costa, Solange Maria Gayoso da, Araújo, Luana Mesquita de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbeur.anpur.org.br/rbeur/article/view/6571
• topic: Feminismo Negro; Mulheres Negras; Território Tradicional; Diáspora; América Latina; Black Feminism; Black Women; Traditional Territory; Diaspora; Latin America

This discussion is part of a larger research on the protagonism of Quilombola women in the struggle for territory in two Brazilian regions: North and South. It presents the results of a Systematic Literature Review that sought to answer: what were the living conditions and resistance strategies of enslaved Black women during the colonial period in Latin America, particularly in Brazil? It analyzes the scientific production, published in the last five years, that shows these women’s strategies of social and political organization in the 18th and 19th centuries. The results indicate that the “abolition or suppression” of slavery could not have happened without the activism of these women, who resisted in different ways in the public and private spaces, although they remained invisible due to the intersections of gender, race and class and their contextures in the domination systems.