The objective of the present work is to make visible the voice of workers
who went through slavery and who today are settled in the Luar do Sertão
settlement, located in the Northern Region of Tocantins, 30 km from the city of
Ananás. We used Oral History as methodology in order to understand the
experiences of the workers we interviewed. For a long time people have talked
about slave labor, but there are still few academic works that approach the
theme, either because of the lack of bibliographic sources or because they don't
know how to deal with the facts. It was through interviews and informal
conversations that it was possible to get to know what in fact these men went
through inside the farms, having to stay there for the fact of having to support
their families and for having incurred debts when accepting the job.
It is not new that organizations such as the CPT (Pastoral Land
Commission) and the CDH (Human Rights Center) have been promoting nongovernmental actions to combat slave labor in Brazil, more specifically in the
city of Ananás, located in the Bico do Papagaio. These actions include
community garden projects and INCRA lands so that these rescued workers do
not return to the slavery system, as was the case in the Luar do Sertão
Settlement. These developed projects aim at the inclusion of these workers,
who are often excluded by society because they are not literate
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