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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.
16 sie 2022 · A Brazilian community struggles to balance celebrating its unique heritage by flying the Confederate flag with shifting cultural tides.
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.
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...
15 cze 2020 · Rather than accept defeat, up to 20,000 die-hard Confederates moved to the slaveholding Empire of Brazil to establish colonies of Confederados. Their descendents still honor them today. In April 1865, the American Civil War was over and the former states of the Confederacy were in ruins.
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 settlement.
