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23 paź 2022 · When the Confederates lost the U.S. Civil War, a significant number of them feared reprisal from the Yankees and life in a society where their former slaves had been freed. So thousands of...
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...
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.
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.
16 sie 2022 · A Brazilian community struggles to balance celebrating its unique heritage by flying the Confederate flag with shifting cultural tides.
12 lip 2020 · “They also brought the ideology of white supremacy and racial terrorism from the United States South to Brazil.” In one dark episode, two Confederate immigrants led a mob in the lynching of a police chief who had refused to track down escaped slaves — in front of his family.
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?
