Abstract
In this article, we examine the interconnection between colonization in Portuguese America, land concentration and the process of enslavement and liberation of the black population in Brazil, evidencing the impact of this interconnection on access to land for quilombos and quilombolas. For this, we resort to bibliographic and documentary research based on oral documents, with a qualitative approach and the use of oral history methodology, from the perspective of materialistic, historical and dialectical analysis. We conclude that, given the socio-historical process of colonial-slave foundation, the structural difficulties of access to titling of quilombola territories act as mechanisms that perpetuate sequelae resulting from the slavery period, in the work and life relationships of Brazilian quilombolas, imposing restrictions on the experience of freedom, even after Abolition.
Keywords:
Land concentration; Freedom; Quilombolas communities