How Did Thousands of Former Confederates End Up in Brazil? | HISTORY In the years after the Civil War ended, thousands of defiant and disillusioned Confederates fled Reconstruction-era D...

'Some settled in Mexico and Venezuela, but the lion’s share sailed for Brazil, a former Confederate ally and one of the few countries in the Americas where slavery was still legal.'
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