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Confederate expatriates in Brazil Even before the end of the war in 1865, there was already talk of immigrating to Brazil, but very little was known about this country. After the war ended, there was such a revival of the issue that several emigration companies were formed.
23 paź 2022 · A few American slaves, who would have been freed in the U.S., moved to Brazil with the Confederates who were their former owners.
23 sty 2018 · Some 20,000 people moved to Brazil between 1865 and 1885, where slavery was still legal. (The numbers vary, with some sources claiming that a more realistic figure is around 10,000 settlers.) The Confederate settlers inhabited various places.
For the ex-Confederates, emigration from the United States to Brazil was not the spontaneous action of rash men; it was the result of study, thought, and deliberate planning.
4 maj 1995 · UP TO 20,000 CONFEDERATES fled a crumbling South, taking slaves, cotton and watermelon seeds to new colonies in Brazil. Today, Brazilian descendants there don Civil War attire and sing old...
As the American Civil War drew to a close, Confederate soldiers began to desert at an ever higher rate. Among the deserters, some ambitious souls who could not fathom living under a restored Union began to look beyond the borders of the United States for refuge and were soon joined in their endeavor by several high-ranking officials and military officers. Many of these expatriates soon found ...
1 lis 1996 · It is a series of well-integrated essays, focusing on two important and previously unresearched aspects: the impact of the confederados on Brazilian society and culture, and the ways the original settlers and their descendants adapted to a whole new culture without losing their own cultural identity.
