The Confederados : Old South immigrants in Brazil /
Of all the colonies founded by former Confederates in Latin America, the most important was established by William Norris at Americana in southeastern Brazil. For 125 years the people in Americana have held on to their language and customs, while prospering within and contributing to the larger Braz...
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University of Alabama Press,
©1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Michael L. Conniff
- Introduction: The confederados / Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey
- Leaving: the context of the southern emigration to Brazil / Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey
- The journey: the Sarah Bellona Smith Ferguson narrative / edited by Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey
- Settling: migration of the McMullan colonists and evolution of the colonies in Brazil / William C. Griggs
- Fitting in: relocating family and capital within the nineteenth-century Atlantic world economy: the Brazilian connection / Laura Jarnagin
- The heritage: the confederados' contributions to Brazilian agriculture, religion, and education / James M. Dawsey and Cyrus B. Dawsey
- The Baptists: southern religion and emigres to Brazil, 1865-1885 / Wayne Flynt
- The Methodists: the southern migrants and the Methodist mission / James M. Dawsey
- A community center: evolution and significance of the Campo site in the Santa Barbara settlement area / Cyrus B. Dawsey
- Constructing identity: defining the American [word is crossed out] descendants in Brazil / John C. Dawsey
- The language: the preservation of southern speech among the colonists / Michael B. Montgomery and Cecil Ataide Melo
- Conclusions: Currents in confederado research / Cyrus B. Dawsey and James M. Dawsey
- Postscript: Reflections of a confederado / Eugene C. Harter
- Annotated bibliography / James M. Gravois and Elizabeth J. Weisbrod.
