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The confederates who left the USA

The confederates who left the USA

Throughline · NPR

March 17, 202617m 5s

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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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