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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Most everything I can find refers to number of slaves owned rather than number of owners...I know the southern plantation owners owned many more than their northern brethren, but from what I’ve heard most my life is that many individual slaves were owned in the north as manservants, butlers, cooks etc....
Also, from what I’ve read, this was from the founding of our country in 1776 on up....Not at the time of the War Between the States.
Some intrepid reporter digs this out of the archives every few years like it’s earth shattering news. I’ve read almost the same story 1000 times in my lifetime, and I never exaggerate.
LOL
Slavery was a small part of the cause of the Civil War and the formation of the Confederate States...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.
The Great Cotton War. Cotton export prices and availability played a significant role during that period and has been minimized as one of the chief causes for the creation of that conflict. As cottons use expanded so did the areas in the world where cotton was introduced both in Africa and Asia and grown as a commodity. Pricewise the south was forced to compete with those areas.
I know a jeweler in Avignon who is definitely a French patriot.
Best of luck to him (I think he’s going to need it).
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