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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455023103321

Titolo

The confederados : old south immigrants in Brazil / / edited by Cyrus B. Dawsey, James M. Dawsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-8173-8902-4

0-585-27308-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

981/.00413

Soggetti

American Confederate voluntary exiles - Brazil - History

Immigrants - Brazil - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Refugees

Brazil History Empire, 1822-1889

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword (Michael L. Conniff); Introduction: The Confederados (Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey); One. Leaving The Context of the Southern Emigration to Brazil (Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey); Two. The Journey The Sarah Bellona Smith Ferguson Narrative (Edited by Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey); Three. Settling: Migration of the McMullan Colonists and Evolution of the Colonies in Brazil (William C. Griggs); Four. Fitting In: Relocating Family and Capital within the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Economy: The Brazilian Connection (Laura Jarnagin)

Five. The Heritage: The Confederados' Contributions to Brazilian Agriculture, Religion, and Education  (Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey)Six. The Baptists: Southern Religion and Émigrés to Brazil, 1865-1885 (Wayne Flynt); Seven. The Methodists: The Southern Migrants and the Methodist Mission (James M. Dawsey); Eight. A Community Center: Evolution and Significance of the Campo Site in the Santa Bárbara Settlement Area (Cyrus B. Dawsey); Nine. Constructing Identity: Defining the American Descendants in Brazil (John C. Dawsey)


Ten. The Language: The Preservation of Southern Speech among the Colonists (Michael B. Montgomery and Cecil Ataide Melo)Eleven. Conclusions: Currents in Confederado Research  (Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey); Postscript: Reflections of a Confederado (Eugene C. Harter); Notes; Annotated Bibliography (James M. Gravois and Elizabeth J. Weisbrod); Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays--which also includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settler-- examines the fascinating experiences of southern Confederate exiles in Brazil and their continuing legacy. During the late 1860s Southerners dissatisfied with the outcome of the Civil War and fearful of the extent of Union reprisals migrated to Brazil to build a new life for themselves. The Confederados--the great majority from Alabama and Texas--began a century-long adventure to establish a new homeland and to preserve important elements of their Old South heritage.For more than a hundre