Territórios negros no Tocantins: caracterização das comunidades quilombolas no território eclesiástico da diocese de Porto Nacional, Tocantins

Abstract

Porto Nacional Diocese was created with a vast extension that included what is nowadays the current State of Tocantins and two more cities in Goiás state, encompassing cities in the regions: central, southeast and south of the state of Tocantins and by the cities of Monte Alegre and Campos Belos, from Goiás State. It is in this Northern Goiás territory that the gold cycle begins and where enslaved black people are brought as slave labor and for this reason cities that make part of Porto Nacional Diocese were emerged, such as Natividade, Arraias, Chapada da Natividade, Conceição do Tocantins, Almas, Monte do Carmo and Porto Nacional. With the mining crisis, part of this black population escaped, creating quilombos. The research aims to carry out a survey and characterization from quilombola communities in the state of Tocantins, located in the ecclesiastical territory of Porto Nacional Diocese, state of Tocantins. It was opted for bibliographical and documentary research, considering the SARS COV-2 pandemic that has precluded field research in the communities.