A escravidão contemporânea nos canaviais mato-grossenses e a educação como prática da liberdade : condições de possibilidades para a práxis de um movimento abolicionista do século XXI, em Mato Grosso

Abstract

The results of the research present conditions of possibility for the liberating praxis of a XXI Century abolitionist social movement, starting from the times lived by workers oppressed by contemporaneous slavery. This social movement, created in the year of two thousand and four, is the State Forum for the Eradication of Slave Labor in Mato Grosso. The research endeavored to densely describe the temporal experiences lived by a group of migrant rural workers from the Brazilian Northeast. This group was faced with slave labor when cutting sugar cane near the city of Poconé, Mato Grosso. The elaboration and the comprehensiveness of the performed description was supported by the existencial phenomenology of MerleauPonty and by Geertz’s interpretative anthropology. Starting from a phenomenological reduction, putting between brackets the knowledge already existing about this theme, we tried to rediscover the existential senses immanent to the lives of these workers, along their multiple stages. After this phase, an inverse process was adopted, closing the brackets. In this processe we confronted the senses revealed by the experiences described, with presuppositions, theories and information discussing the contemporaneous slavery and the liberating education. Therefore, base on these findings, we commented the conditions of possibility for the performance of a liberating praxis to be carried out by the State Forum for the Eradication of Slave Labor in Mato Grosso, in what regards the migrant workers from the state of Maranhão, the object of this research. The results identified the necessity of a liberating education, whose temporality would not be discordant from the peculiar experiences lived by the migrant sugar cane cutters.