Exiles, Emigrants, and Sojourners: The Post-Civil War Confederate Exodus in Perspective

Sutherland, Daniel E.

doi:10.1353/cwh.1985.0057

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“…In the aftermath of the Civil War, several thousand ex-Confederates emigrated from the United States to several Latin American countries (Hill, 1935; Sutherland, 1985), including Mexico (Rolle, 1992; Wahlstrom, 2020), Cuba, Honduras (Simmons, 2017), Peru, Chile, Venezuela, and Brazil (Dawsey and Dawsey, 1995; Harter, 1985; Jarnagin, 2008). This was the largest out-migration of white people from the United States in recorded history (Marcus, 2021).…”

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The crisis of Confederate memory in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil

Brasher

2021

Memory Studies

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The crisis over Confederate memory in the United States has dominated international headlines since the tragic events of racist violence associated with the 2017 Charlottesville tragedy. Yet the scale of debate and attention paid to this crisis has been mostly limited to the United States, despite the globalized nature of Confederate memory politics. Little known is the fact that after the US Civil War, several thousand ex-Confederates migrated to Brazil where descendants still celebrate their heritage with a festival that draws thousands to a rural area of São Paulo state. A descendant-curated museum also narrates the Confederate migration. Drawing on work in critical settler colonial and comparative racial and ethnic studies, the “transcultural turn” in memory studies, and a year of fieldwork, this article traces the crisis of Confederate memory to the interior of São Paulo, Brazil, and explores the global impact the 2017 Charlottesville tragedy has had on Confederate commemoration.

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