Posted on 05/07/2017 11:21:23 AM PDT by blam
When the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865, 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil, where they could rebuild their lives and carry on their traditions.
Now, 150 years later, their story has been seemingly erased from the history books.
But deep in the heart of Brazil, descendants of these confederate expats gather annually to celebrate their controversial history and maintain their traditions and culture. In 2015, Vice's Mimi Dwyer attended the festival and revealed what life is like in the city called Americana.
Each year, the small Brazilian city of Americana throws a huge celebration to commemorate the 10,000 Confederates who fled the American South after their side lost the Civil War.
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Today, their descendants look upon the Confederate flag not as an emblem of racism and slavery but as a symbol of something their ancestors held dear to their hearts.
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Fleeing NAZIs went to Brazil and other South American countries also.
I wonder if there really is such a thing as a French right winger and, if they exist, have the common sense to get out of Dodge!
Sorry - my comment was aimed at the author of this article who was suggesting that the history of the Confederados was being deliberately obliterated. I would agree that leftists of various stripe are attempting to “whitewash” the new south of references to the Civil War.
Sorry, I misunderstood your point. Thanks for clarifying.
Nazis went to almost every country in South America.
There is also a colony of Welsh in Patagonia, several generations old.
We should move all the monuments there.
In almost every discussion or talk of the Confederacy, the issue of slavery is utmost...
Slavery was a small part of the cause of the Civil War and the formation of the Confederate States...
It accepts the shallow but unchallenged premise that the Civil War occurred because slavery was practiced in the South, and that righteous resolve to abolish the institution left the U.S. with no option other than a resort to arms. This is a myopic view
with which many historical facts simply cannot be reconciled.
The war resulted from causes unrelated to slavery and abolition. It was entirely a consequence of the Southern states’ secession, which occurred despite the undeniable fact that the slave states could not have hoped for better protection of slavery than that afforded by the U. S. Constitution — provided they remained in the Union.
Both Lincoln and the slaveholders well knew in 1860 that a constitutional amendment ending slavery would never be mathematically feasible. But Lincoln further understood that the South was gravitating toward secession as the remedy for a different grievance altogether: The egregiously inequitable effects of a U. S. protective tariff that provided 90 percent of federal revenue.
Foreign governments retaliated for it with tariffs of their own, and payment of those overseas levies represented the cost to Americans of their U. S. government. Southerners were generating two-thirds of U. S. exports, and also bearing two-thirds of the retaliatory tariffs abroad.
The result was that that the 18.5 percent of America’s citizens who lived in the South were saddled with three times their proportionate share of the federal government’s costs.
Why??? The monuments shouldn’t even be touched...They are a part of history whether some like it or not....
Destroying or removing monuments are just another act of “political correctness”...
What was the tariff rate on raw cotton imports in Britain and France prior to the war? Just curious.
Why??? The monuments shouldn’t even be touched...They are a part of history whether some like it or not....
Destroying or removing monuments are just another act of “political correctness”...
oops...Sorry for the repost....
The south thought that because of Europe’s reliance on the south for cotton, the seccession would be economically good for the southern states...
Well they really blew that one then, didn't they?
Yep...Sure did....
Yeah Germans went there after WWII too
Doesn't really affect a place like Americana. About 100 percent of those 100 million blacks live in the north of Brazil. Americana is in the southern part of Brazil, which is about 100 percent European.
I only found this out recently.
>>>Georgian. God bless them for not bowing to political correctness.
Their small numbers vs the Brazilian government caused them to see the light. Slavery in Brazil was outlawed in the 1880s.
Make no mistake about it, they are trying to erase that from the history of America.
Statues are being removed, flags are being banned.
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