Floresta Negra, a presença africana na amazônia

Abstract

The present work seeks to understand how the entry and presence of blacks in the Amazon mainly in the 53rd and 19th centuries. work has been developed field research and bibliographic reviews for question and understand how the presence of blackness was and is seen until the days Current. During this period, we also seek to analyze in what sense the african presence influenced the Brazilian people and in particular the society amazonense trying to understand the various ways that we can observe this presence in the region.It is important to stress here so that there is no misconception, that the work does not seek exactly to question whether or not there was a african presence in the region of the present Amazon, but rather, seeks to understand the influences and forms that this presence has been made and is present in our society, seeking to develop a narrative that justifies the relevance of agents for the formation of the State.