Land Occupation in Brazil

Question 1

Quilombo dos Palmares

Answer 1

A free community formed by enslaved africans, largest attempt at self-government….lasted for around 100 years (1595-1695)

Question 2

Sugar in Brazil?

Answer 2

Primary export from 1500-1800 following Portuguese colonisation

40% Africans sent to Brazil, which was the last country to abolish slavery in 1888

Today 2000-2013, area of sugarcane expanded 19-26m hectares - Brazil largest producer and exporter of sugar

Question 3

Example of resistance - Brazil

Answer 3

Laginha mill (2014), over 4,000 landless workers and their peasants live and work on the land, organise autonomously

form of reparations - from sugar frontier to peasant frontier

Question 4

Continuities?

Answer 4

historical connections in the emergence of black peasantries - plantation occupation - history of black peasantries shaping agrarian history and emancipatory politics by forming autonomous communities…