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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...
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 Sao...
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.
25 lip 2018 · In the decade after the Civil War, roughly 10,000 Southerners left the United States, with the majority going to Brazil, where slavery was still legal. (Others went to such places as Cuba,...
The festival commemorates the history of the Confederados, who were a group of Confederate soldiers fleeing to Brazil to continue practicing slavery after the defeat of the Confederate States of America following the American Civil War, as Brazil was one of the last countries to legally bar slavery.
