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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See my #23
I understand all that. Thanks.
That’s something to keep in mind.
And most of the other half are part black.
Sorry about that...I should’ve posted that to “all”...:^)
Well, at least they’re not burning books!
Bttt.
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‘Slavery was a small part of the cause of the Civil War and the formation of the Confederate States...’
sigh, here we go again; please read the Articles of Secession of the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas...and come back and tell us what you learned...
We’re not going anywhere...The southern states were producing cotton that was being sent to Europe, who demanded a lot of it...it was also being tariffed and the southern states were not only paying the tariff but giving the northern states who were acting as “middlemen” in the sale enormous profit and they were not paying any part of the tariffs...The only way the south figured to make to best profit off their product was seccession and dealing with Europe themselves...As part of the US, they could not do this...
Do a little study yourself and you’ll find that there were MORE slaves owned in the northern states than is the south...Slavery became a big issue when Lincoln decided that would create diversion and division in the south...
Lincoln actually would like to have been able to ship slaves back to their homeland, but the northern owners would hear nothing of that....
Of course the south didn’t want to lose slavery as that was the main tool for harvesting their cotton crop, but it was NOT a main issue in the war...
I agree that they are trying to destroy the heritage of a third of the US. My family fought in four different Union Regiments in the West from day one until the South surrendered, we lost some people.
The problem we had was secession with some doubts about slavery but the main concern was preservation of the Union.
FYI: Twenty years after the arrival of the southerners Brazil was the last Americas nation to outlaw slavery.
No problem...it never hurts to see and be reminded of the truth.
This may interest you:
Alabama Fights To Reinstate Plaque Celebrating Welsh ‘Columbus’
"A GROUP of Welsh Americans are hoping their campaign to reinstate a plaque celebrating the arrival of Prince Madoc ap Owain in the US will overcome its final political hurdle."
Do you know how right you are?
The Confederacy started out with an embargo on cotton shipments to Europe (mostly Britain), apparently hoping to pressure them into doing, what? The effect of that was, that the Brits 1) went looking for other sources of cotton, and 2) the Union had time to build up the Navy to a level that when shipping would have materially helped the Confederates, it was cut off by the Federal blockade.
All that cotton sat in warehouses waiting for ships that never came.
I'd love to see corroboration of this claim!
+1
for later
You are correct...It is said that there were more owners in the north than the south, just the southern owners had more slaves...
Again, I would have to see some sort of statistical evidence to ever believe that. It just doesn’t make logical sense.
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