Posted on 04/27/2015 3:51:01 PM PDT by drewh
Note name of city, Americana. Still held onto their roots 150 years ago.
What was not mentioned is that teenager are not sent back to America to see their roots. Interesting story.
I thought it was an outstanding movie. Rough, violent, true.
A real story. IT was Emmy Award type of movie.
My understanding is the have become pretty much Portuguese speaking Brazilians.
That’s one, Ah say that’s one funny critter.
C-SPAN3 has been running some interesting programs having to do with the end of the Civil War on recent weekends. One segment dealt with the Confederados. It seems about half of them eventually returned to the US. Some of them had it pretty rough in Brazil—one speaker read something from one of the settlers (either letters or a diary, I forget) describing his life there the first few years, a very difficult life.
The stories are interesting. Over the years we have made vacation trips to a small island called Elbow Quay off Great Abaco. We have gotten to learn the long term residents whose families are almost originally from Charleston. They supported the Crown during the Revolution. The next island, Man-of-War, has a number of exiled Confederates. My daughter in law have ancestors who migrated to Michigan from Canada in the late 1800s. They were originally from Massachusetts, again Loyalists who went to Canada when we gained independence.
ummmm. Arkansas? lolz :)
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I have been in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which was founded by Loyalists. I don’t know if any of their tombstones survive because of the toll the climate took on the stones. By 1812 enough non-Loyalists from the US had emigrated to Ontario that Jefferson thought that the area could be easily conquered in an American invasion, that it would “just be a matter of marching.” Instead the US invasion seems to have generated a stronger desire to remain British on the part of the inhabitants.
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