Contexture of land in the Vale do Iguape: rights, conflict and political organization (1871-1962).
struggles for lands; post abolition; black peasantry.
The present doctoral thesis aims to investigate and understand the various access tactics and permanence in the lands that the peasants of the Vale do Iguape in at the Recôncavo from Bahia articulate over time and how these contributed to the construction of a black peasantry in the region, on the post abolition. The analysis focuses on disputes around the territory of the old Engenho Nossa Senhora da Vitória, belonging to the Moniz Barreto de Aragão family for almost a century, the timeframe privileged by this research is long and allows to follow the quarrels involving the black population the Iguape and a recognized family like sugar elite, land and slaves. The chronological period begins at the moment the booty of the family patriarch, Egas Moniz Barreto de Aragão is being analyzed and divided, in this period also is possible to access and retrieve itineraries of the enslaved population that occupy this territory in the last decades of the slave system, as, a parental line the Monizes who started managing these lands, and ends in 1962 when the Victoria farm is characterized as a space of devout land and part of it was occupied and subdivided by peasants who organized politically through the Sociedade dos Trabalhadores da Lavoura da Terra Vermelha and the Iguape. Themes as: Action the rights of property in the rural world, the world of work, family ties, racialization and political organization will be considered as a conducting wire and through the problematization of them in the black population of Vale do Iguape will be exhibited in its various forms of struggles for maintenance of the peasant way of life.