Rebeliões da Senzala: Quilombos, insurreições, guerrilhas

by Clóvis Moura

Rebeliões da Senzala “(...) foi a primeira obra na historiografia brasileira a tratar da questão das rebeliões negras de maneira sistemática, mostrando com fatos históricos o alastramento desse fenômeno em todo o território brasileiro. (...) Clóvis Moura foi sem dúvida o pioneiro e o primeiro a desmistificar a ideia do negro submisso que não se importava com sua situação de cativo e a colocar em pauta a questão de sua participação no processo abolicionista e libertário, habilitando-o como sujeito de sua história e da história do Brasil e tirando-o da posição de mero objeto de pesquisa acadêmica”. Kabengele Munanga, professor do Departamento de Antropologia da FFLCH/USP

Esgotado há meses, o livro ganha agora sua sexta edição, com o mesmo conteúdo, mas revisado e com nova capa, com acabamento soft-touch, e novo projeto gráfico.

444 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Clóvis Steiger de Assis Moura, better known as Clóvis Moura, was a sociologist, journalist, historian, and writer. In the book Clay of Memory, Clóvis Moura talks about his childhood in the countryside, the Rio Parnaíba and myths of Piaui's folklore, such as the legend of the Cuia de Cabeça. He was influenced by Marxism, having developed the Sociology of Black Praxis. Clovis Moura questioned Gilberto Freyre's view of black passivity in Brazil, highlighting the quilombos' resistance to slavery. In his research he dealt with the slave rebellion and the formation of the quilombos. Drawing on Marx's theory, he analyzed the class struggle in the slave system. For Clovis Moura, Brazilian slave society was subdivided into two antagonistic classes: slaveholders (ruling class) and slaves (dominated class). Slaves produced material goods and wealth while slaveholders owned property and the means of production. After abolition, slaves, despite having produced the riches that underpinned the Brazilian economy, were not entitled to property.

He militated for the Brazilian Communist Party and, in 1962, in the split of the party, migrated to PCdoB. It stood out for its pioneering militancy in the Brazilian black movement. Collaborated with articles for newspapers from Bahia and São Paulo.