Quilombo Bom Sucesso dos Negros, municipality of Mata Roma (MA): between memory and resistance

Abstract

In this article we will discuss the historical and geographical origin of the Quilombo of Bom Sucesso dos Negros, located in the Mata Roma-MA. The formation of this quilombola territory represents an important record of transformation of slaves into free peasants, going through a relationship of dependence through the market. From the economic break of many slave "lords", several situations of donation, acquisition, and transmission by inheritance of land responsible for maximizing black territorialities emerged. Its residents are related to each other by kinship ties and report their origin from twelve slave families that had access to the land through income. Bom Sucesso may be considered one of the oldest black communities in the territory of Maranhão, its location mentioned before was historically marked by the existence of quilombos, among them the one named Lagoa Amarela, whose leader was the black Cosme, who suffered from retaliations by Caxias troops during the Balaiada (1838-1841).The organization of this territory of its own rhythms of life, work and craft production in local practices. In this sense it assumes the centrality of our studies carried out through a participative and collaborative daily praxis that resists and struggles against the expansion of agricultural modernization in eastern Maranhão, facing the interests of agribusiness subjects that reveal the dynamics of hegemonic capital.