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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.
They are the descendants of people who emigrated from the Confederate States of America to Brazil with their families after the American Civil War. At the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, a migration of Confederates to Brazil began, with the total number of immigrants estimated in the thousands.
Following the Civil War, slavery was abolished in the United States. In Brazil, however, slavery was legal until 1888, making it a particularly attractive location to former Confederates, among whom was a former member of the Alabama State Senate, William Hutchinson Norris. [3]
A festival celebrating the Confederacy is celebrated annually in rural Sao Paulo in Brazil. It's held in a town where Confederate supporters fled after the Civil War and founded a slave-owning colony.
Confederate colonies were made up of Confederate refugees who were displaced or fled their homes during or immediately after the American Civil War. They migrated to various countries, but especially Brazil , where slavery remained legal , and to a lesser extent Mexico and British Honduras (modern Belize ).
K. Denise Rucker Krepp’s Confederate forebear had an Army base named in his honor. She played a role in getting it changed. Opinion: My family lost the Civil War.
Festa dos Confederados is a festival which takes place at the end of April in Santa Barbara, d'Oeste in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.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 ...
Richmond removed its other Confederate monuments amid the racial justice protests that followed George Floyd’s killing in 2020. But efforts to remove the statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill ...