Relação sociocultural entre Brasil e Guiné-Bissau: uma análise sobre processos de construção e ressignificação das identidades a partir de trânsitos no atlântico escravocrata do porto de cacheu para São Luís de Maranhão XVIII-XX

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to understand the historical and socio-cultural relationship between Brazil and Guinea-Bissau, in the process of constructing and re-signifying new identities in the Atlantic, specifically in Maranhão, based on the dynamics of transatlantic slavery. The city of Cacheu´s located in the north of the country, approximately 100 kilometers from the capital Bissau, and was one of the most important trading posts and ports in Guinea-Bissau, which had great strategic importance on the West Coast of Africa during the time of slavery. The study proposes the following questions: How can the legacy of transatlantic slavery help to understand the historical relationship between Guinea-Bissau and Maranhão? What are the cultural links between Guinea-Bissau and Maranhão, considering the legacy of slavery? What significance does Cacheu have in the history of transatlantic slavery? At the same time, to what extent can a historical and social reflection help to understand the socio-cultural relations between the two countries based on transits in the slave Atlantic? In methodological terms, this study is qualitative in nature, based on documentary analysis and bibliographical research, as theoretical and strategic support that made it possible to approach and understand the reality to be studied, through a case study, carried out on site. In the light of the studies carried out, the research proved that the relationship between Guinea-Bissau and Brazil is based on historical facts.