The confederates who left the USA
3/17/202617 min
After the Civil War, while America was rebuilding itself, some Southerners made a different kind of move — they packed up and left. Today on the show: the Confederados, the American settlers who fled to Brazil chasing wealth, land, and a chance to keep slavery alive.
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Rund Abdelfatah· Host0:24
[upbeat music] This is America in Pursuit, a limited-run series from Throughline and NPR. I'm Rund Abdelfatah. Each week we bring you stories about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the US that began 250 years ago. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the country was being rebuilt. Slavery was abolished. Black men had won the right to vote, and the rights and protections outlined in the Bill of Rights were starting to include more and more people. For some people, the changes happening in the country were just the start, but for others, they felt like a step in the wrong direction.
Sonny Dossey· Guest1:10
They had lost relatives and friends to the conflict, felt insecure, didn't know what to expect.
Rund Abdelfatah· Host1:16
Many American Confederates who didn't wanna rejoin the Union after the war left in search of a place where they could recreate what they had lost, a world that still had slavery.
Luciana Brito· Guest1:28
Slavery in Brazil was