O trabalho escravo contemporâneo e a atuação da comissão pastoral da terra – CPT no norte de goiás(1975-1995)

Abstract

The expression slave labor seems to evoke colonial slavery. This is because When we talk about slavery, the image that prevails is the same one published in books didactics on colonial slavery in Brazil. And think about the enslavement of people in 21st century, may seem absurd. In colonial ways, perhaps it really is. Because the Brazilian society today presents social, political and economic configurations specific to the present time. But, as Moisés Pereira da Silva addresses (year, p13) “in the dynamics inherent to History, slavery is reinvented with the re-elaboration that takes place operates in human ways of being, feeling and representing”. It is precisely slavery in Contemporary Brazil that is of interest to our study. This work aims to research, contemporary slave labor and the CPT’s activities in the north of Goiás (1975-1995). We know that slave labor in its contemporary appearance is presents in the most varied forms. And based on this assertion, we aim to investigate cases of slave labor in the northern region of Goiás and confirm our hypothesis that the example of CPT's performance in the Amazon, in Goiás this institution also constituted the largest entity to combat degrading work in the countryside.