The article analyzes a large set of historical sources which reveled fragments on movements and conflicts occurred in the rural area of Juiz de Fora (Zona da Mata mineira, Brasil) through a period of fifty years (1878-1928). The histories analysed give us the knowledge of the victories and defeats forged in the vicissitudes of life and denude the countrymen strategies of survival under the lawsuits in the play of power to have a rigth to land.
Rural Movements; Lawsuits; Afrodescendants