"A Slice of the Confederacy in the Interior of Brazil" Topic
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 Nashville  | 09 May 2016 11:02 a.m. PST |
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| mumbasa | 09 May 2016 1:39 p.m. PST |
Thanks!! That was very interesting.
John |
| Maxshadow | 09 May 2016 11:49 p.m. PST |
What an interesting story! |
| Inkpaduta | 10 May 2016 9:44 a.m. PST |
Years ago 60 minutes did a piece on this. It was really fascinating to see. |
| doug redshirt | 10 May 2016 10:43 a.m. PST |
So sort of like the Nazis who fled Germany after the war. This time it was slavers fleeing to carry on the tradition of slavery. |
| KTravlos | 11 May 2016 4:38 a.m. PST |
well yes, difference is this time they did not fight when the majority decided to abolish slavery in Brazil, which was good for Brazil (in the US it was not even that,as the majority was simply complementing refusing to permit it to expand westward). Anyway 100-200 years from now, when the political issues tied up to the confederate legacy are resolved in the US, this kind of celebrations will probably not lead anyone to bat an eye. Kinda like people wearing pants (once banned in Rome) |
| SCW2003 | 12 May 2016 2:47 a.m. PST |
Great article, i sell civil war uniforms for a living in the UK and was wondering why i had a string of orders to Brazil, now i know why ! |
| JD Lee | 12 May 2016 8:04 a.m. PST |
Interesting, never knew this! |
| John the Greater | 12 May 2016 8:31 a.m. PST |
It is indeed an interesting bit of history. Every few years somebody "discovers" the Brazilian Confederates again. As a side note, I am presenting a paper in Montevideo in July on a Confederate naval officer, James Tomb, who worked as a contract torpedo expert for the Brazilian navy during the war with Paraguay. No all the Rebs settled down to a life of farming. |
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completes a Confederate river ironclad.