Abstract:
We live in a patriarchal-racist-capitalist society that continually renews the unequal social relations which based the Brazil social formation since the colonial period. Among the expressions of this inequality, there is a strong invisibility of black women. Therefore, in this article we reflect on women protagonists of struggles and resistances against slavery in Brazil. It is essential to reveal the importance of these women and break with the invisibility of their actions. Here, we present the black women as a fundamental historical and political subject in the actions of resistance against slavery. Women who remain silenced by the dominant white narrative. For that, we carried out a qualitative research based on bibliographic and documental review based on a Marxist feminism and a dialectical historical materialism method. We conclude that even in the face of social inequality, black women led resistance and struggles against slavery in defense of freedom.
Keywords:
Black women; Resistances; Colonial Brazil