Memória e história do pós-escravidão: o cotidiano do engenho Buraco d’Água na cidade Alagoa Nova-PB (1918-1950).

Abstract

This dissertation raises questions through workers narratives, the daily life in Engenho Buraco d‟Água in the city of Alagoa Nova – PB between 1918 and 1950. This way, the goal is to understand how these sugar mill workers built their life experiences, fight and work in this place in the post slavery period. Thus, it was analyzed which signals and indications of permanence and discontinuities of slave practices that the memory of these women brought to light. In this study, we dialogue with theorists who bring a big contribution about Memory and History, such as Bosi (1994) and Halbwachs (2006). Therefore, this approach fits in the practice and representation conceptions of Chartier (1991) and Certeau (2007) with strategy and tactics. As methodological approach, we could count with Alberti‟s (2005) contribution about Oral History, in her conception of life story, to work with the memory of women who were born and lived their childhood and youth in Engenho Buaco d‟Água. Thus, we tried to demonstrate through the dialogue between the oral, written and photographic sources; and the experiences of workers of the sugar mill in the post-slavery. Thus, it was evident the rearrangements of the relations, the alliances and negotiations established in the daily life of the sugar mill between the workers and the owner of the property to guarantee work and housing.