Da relação entre os negros e a igreja no Brasil

Abstract

Black slavery in Brazil took place over a period of four centuries, although there are great advances in struggles against prejudice, facts of permanence of racism are still identified. The institution of the national day of black conscience, November 20, exemplifies one of the achievements of the black people, since it implies the question by society about history, and what are the causes that caused the perpetration of this nefarious event for a considerable period of time, emphasizing the participation of the church in restraining and accepting the slavery of human beings in order to obtain a profit. It is of fundamental importance to analyze the influence of the participation of the Catholic Church in the Brazilian black slavery process, not only of the implantation, but of the reasons that led to its maintenance and strengthening of this labor system in the country. Concomitantly, this artifice is used to identify which point religion could be used as a justification to trigger the situation, with no intention of judging the actions but rather, observing some facts that occurred from the report of researchers on the theme, in academic repositories and books.