The social dramas of the seringueiros in the period of the “Battle of the Rubber”

Francisco Eleud Gomes da Silva1

Emerson Dias da Silva2

Eduardo Gomes da Silva Filho3

Abstract

In the text, an analysis of a topic of such historical importance will be sought, knowing that one of the jobs of historians

is to remember historical facts and reinterpret them, based on this assumption, we could not forget to mention the social

dramas by which the Northeastern migrants who came with the mission to cut rubber to help in the Federal Government’s

war effort passed through the “Washington Accords”, and who became known as “Rubber Soldiers”. Our objective is to

demystify the “rubber soldiers”, without, however, victimizing them, since these social and historical actors, as subjects,

were extremely important for the history of Amazonas, Brazil and the world.

Keywords: Rubber tappers. Rubber Battle. Amazon.