Ex-slaves lands (terras Quilombolas): A land funded solution for the ex-slaves in Brazil
Delaíde Passos, Adâmara Felício, Daniella Scarassatti, Farias, Bastiaan Reydon
Quilombolas are the isolated communities of ex-slaves originated in the 16th century when they escaped from plantations, mining and others, resisting to the existing system of labor in Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888, as the country did not create policies aiming the economic and social sustainability of the new freedmen, Brazil historically accumulated a social liability with them. Only 100 years later, with the Constitution of 1988, the country started to recognize the areas occupied by the remaining quilombolas as their communal private property. Today there are already 3,010 quilombola units, officially Incra, stats that there are 314 quilombola territories, which occupied an area of 1,422,574 ha. The main aim of this article is to make an assessment of this policy, manly looking at the role that land assess brought to these communities, based on secondary information. Thus, the article wants to show that the policy of titling the remaining lands of quilombos has its value not only in the legal dimension of relations, but also in historical and cultural relations, insofar as it recognizes the importance of black communities in Brazil's development process, the access to land and to the permanence in areas that are sufficient and adequate for the physical and cultural reproduction, as well as basic conditions.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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