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9 paź 2023 · In the aftermath of the American Civil War, which spanned from 1861 to 1865, approximately 20,000 Confederate soldiers and their families sought refuge in Brazil, escaping the societal...
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.
22 cze 2002 · As part of the largest exodus of U.S. citizens in American history, Confederate veterans from Kentucky and other states fled to Brazil after the Civil War and established a permanent...
Confederados (Portuguese pronunciation: [kõfedeˈɾadus]) is the Brazilian name for Confederate expatriates, all white Southerners (along with their Black slaves), who fled the Southern United States during Reconstruction, and their Brazilian descendants.
Thus, between ten and twenty thousand people moved to Brazil from the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas over the twenty years between 1865 and 1885, establishing about half a dozen settlements.
16 lis 2020 · Many Confederates, some say as many as 20,000, moved to Brazil hoping to recreate their way of life in a society on the verge of a cotton boom, where they could still legally purchase slaves. Are some Brazilians outraged by the festa’s celebration of slave-owning history?
17 kwi 1995 · Rita Lee, a Confederate descendant named after Robert E. Lee, has become one of Brazil’s most popular singers. Her uncle, Leonard Yancy Jones, established the first public radio station in...
