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Thread ID: 6713 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-05-16
2003-05-16 20:34 | User Profile
**A Brief History of the Confederate Colonies of Brazil The Confederados
At the end of the Civil War in the 1860's, a migration of Confederates to Brazil began, with the total number of immigrants estimated in the thousands. They settled primarily in the southern Atlantic coastal region of the country, in Americana, Campinnas, Sao Paulo, Juquia, New Texas, Xiririca, Rio de Janeiro, and Rio Doce. One colony settled in Santarem, in the north on the Amazon River. The cost of passage was $20-$30, and the voyage took several weeks. Each family was encouraged to bring a tent, light weight furniture, farming supplies and seeds, and provisions to last six months. Land was offered at 22 cents an acre, with four years credit, and rich farmland was promised.
After landing on the coast, travel by land and river was difficult. Women who had never cooked a meal or washed a garment were cooking and washing over an open campfire. Malaria was prevalent, and a drought ruined most of the first crops in the colony of Rio Doce.
Although many Confederates ultimately returned to their homes in the United States, many more settled permanently in Brazil and their descendants are living in Brazil...many still celebrating their Southern American heritage as well as their Brazilian culture. Read more about the Brazilian descendants of the Confederados at the The Sons of Confederate Veteran's web page for the "Os Confederados"...**
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2003-05-16 20:41 | User Profile
A part that I personally find interesting:
**However, as the colony evolved and immigrants from many parts of world arrived, they turned into real Brazilian and married Italians, Poles, Germans, Dutch and, believe it or not, Russians!
The Russian immigrants are an interesting part of Brazilian history. A Russian community was founded only five miles from Americana named New Odessa. During the Cold War, the Brazilians marveled at the lack of friction between the two groups, unaware of the fact that the Confederados were not Yankees and that the Russian immigrants were not Red Russians! **
The Slavs in Brazil (~2,000,000 Poles, Ukrainians and Russians) are racist and marry only between themselves and other whites. From my personal experience, most of these Confederados are the same way.