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Felipa Maria Aranha

Panmela Castro2020

Pinacoteca de São Paulo

Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

In the second half of the eighteenth century, Filipa Maria Aranha formed a quilombo with more than three hundred enslaved fugitives, who supported themselves for many years. Located at the headwaters of the Itapocu river, a tributary of the Tocantins river – currently in the municipality of Cametá, Pará – the quilombo was called Mola or Itapocu. Coming from the Mina Coast, Filipa was enslaved and taken to Belém, in Grão-Pará, from whence she went to work on a sugarcane plantation in Cametá. She fled in 1750 and created a quilombo, which she headed with political, social and military organization. Memories and legends tell that Filipa helped to structure the Confederation of Itapocu, an entity composed of several quilombos (currently the remnant quilombola communities of Mola, Laguinho, Tomásia, Boa Esperança and Porto Alegre).

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  • Title: Felipa Maria Aranha
  • Creator: Panmela Castro
  • Date Created: 2020
  • Physical Dimensions: 70 x 50,4 x 8 cm (Suporte)
  • Provenance: Projeto Enciclopédia Negra (Companhia das Letras em parceria com a Pinacoteca de São Paulo, apoio do Instituto Ibirapitanga e colaboração do Instituto Soma Cidadania Criativa). Doação do artista, por intermédio da Associação Pinacoteca Arte e Cultura - APAC - em processo.
  • Type: Pintura
  • Medium: oil on canvas
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