Do inferno à Pagoa: a trajetória de vida de Manoel Eugênio da Silva, núcleo quilombola da Pagoa, Rio Andirá

Abstract

Our research refers to the process of memory construction and reconstruction of the history of the quilombos of the Andirá river, located in the municipality of Barreirinha, Amazonas. It starts from a concern regarding the trajectory of Manoel Eugênio da Silva, a quilombola character, where we analyze his trajectory through the memories of the oldest residents of the quilombo Santa Tereza and the Pagoa nucleus, as well as the memories of his family members. We dialogue with authors in the field of social history of black people, in the post-abolition period and with the methodology of Oral History (ALBERTI, 2011). The experiences and reflections recorded in this article are based on studies such as Ranciaro (2016), Siqueira (2016) and Rocha (2019), which deal with the Quilombos of the Andirá River and their processes of ethnic, social and territorial recognition. Within this context of struggle, the trajectory of Manoel Eugênio was silenced in the processes of producing the genealogy of the quilombos of the Andirá River. Therefore, we consider it opportune to recover aspects of this subject's life, through the voices of people who shared the post-abolition worlds with this character and what reveres the trajectory of the old Manoel.