Os Confederados
Surname/tag: CONFEDERADOS
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Who are the Confederados?
The Confederados are American southerners, and their descendants, who left the United States after the civil war and moved to Brazil. Although the Americans settled throughout Brazil, the center of the Confederados settlement was in the current state of São Paulo, where they founded the city of Americana, which was once part of the neighboring city of Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.
The government of Brazil at the time actively encouraged this migration, hoping that the American southerners would bring more modern agriculture and manufacturing techniques to Brazil and contribute to the development of the country.
There is a Wikipedia article on the Confederados. There is no clear record of the number of American southerners who emigrated from the American South to Brazil; the Wikipedia article gives the estimate of 20,000. Although many eventually returned to the United States, many stayed; the Wikipedia article has the estimate of 260,00 people in Brazil who are descendants of the American who immigrated to Brazil.
The Encyclopedia af Alabama has an article on the Confederados.
The Goal of the Project
The goal of this project is to serve as a research aid to find information on those American southerners who emigrated to Brazil in the aftermath of the American civil war, about 1865 - 1875.
Resources
Many of the Confederados and their dependents are buried in the Cemitério dos Americanos, also known as the Cemitério do Campo (Campo Cemetery) in Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Município de Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil.
Auburn University has: digital collection of Confederado papers including letters written by and to Confederados. The collection has a Help page for the Confederado collection.
The Portuguese language Wikipedia has a page: Categoria:Brasileiros de ascendência norte-americana
The English Language Wikipedia has a page Category:Brazilian people of American descent
The Encyclopedia of Alabama has a page: The Confederados
Wikipedia page on New Texas and the McMullen Colony: McMullan Colony
Notable Confederados
Random Confederado Facts
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has a great-uncle, W.S. Wise, who was a Confederado.[1]
Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922-2018), is descended from Confederados. He was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor, and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from Tanzanian queen bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo, in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.[2][3][4]
Popular Brazilian singer Rita Lee has Confederado roots through her father.[5][6]
Members
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References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalynn_Carter
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Estevam_Kerr
- ↑ https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwick_Kerr
- ↑ Warwick Kerr is Listed as a “ Notable Confederado“ here : https://kids.kiddle.co/Confederados
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lee
- ↑ https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Lee
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Excited to see that this is interesting for you! The Confederados are Brazil Team page, which is under the Latin American Heritage Project. You can request to join that Project for a badge and I can add you to the Brazil Team. You can join under this link here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1456976/would-you-like-to-join-the-latin-america-project
It's a bit difficult to work on this project without a partner, in my opinion, as the US of course did not keep track of who left, while having excellent digitized records otherwise, while Brazil has the evidence without having much of the records digitized yet - they are getting digitized on FamilySearch hodgepodge as we speak, so we identify them by chance or through notables like the Kerrs or Rita Lee. I am not sure whether anyone has researched the families in Brazil on an individual basis, only in a general sense. I am happy to discuss more on Discord or if you send me a private message on my profile!