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A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang (review)

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era... The last chapter of the book focuses on southern emigration to Bra- zil after the Civil War. Facing the collapse of slavery, the devastation the war wrought, and the onset of Reconstruction, many upper-class white southern families chose to escape by traveling to Brazil and founding colonies. Wolnisty argues that this emigration happened because of the long history of looking southward and the networks that expansionists before them had created. The emigrants who went hoped to maintain their proslavery attitudes and partake in a familiar slavery-based society. Like the filibusters and commercial expansionists before them, they relied on links between the South and South America to help orchestrate their travel from the South. As they planned their migration, families became rooted in multiple geographic spaces and shifted back and forth between them. However, the southern emigrant communities were largely failures, though there were many individuals who remained in Brazil and became a part of Brazilian society. Wolnisty’s vibrant stories of the emigrant communities, filibusters, and commercial expansionist boosters begs the question of scale. Exactly how many southerners went to Brazil, and how many businesses did they set up with successful trade relations? Sometimes it was difficult to tell what http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era by Andrew F. Lang (review)

Tyrrell, Ian
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 12 (1) – Feb 15, 2022
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The last chapter of the book focuses on southern emigration to Bra- zil after the Civil War. Facing the collapse of slavery, the devastation the war wrought, and the onset of Reconstruction, many upper-class white southern families chose to escape by traveling to Brazil and founding colonies. Wolnisty argues that this emigration happened because of the long history of looking southward and the networks that expansionists before them had created. The emigrants who went hoped to maintain their proslavery attitudes and partake in a familiar slavery-based society. Like the filibusters and commercial expansionists before them, they relied on links between the South and South America to help orchestrate their travel from the South. As they planned their migration, families became rooted in multiple geographic spaces and shifted back and forth between them. However, the southern emigrant communities were largely failures, though there were many individuals who remained in Brazil and became a part of Brazilian society. Wolnisty’s vibrant stories of the emigrant communities, filibusters, and commercial expansionist boosters begs the question of scale. Exactly how many southerners went to Brazil, and how many businesses did they set up with successful trade relations? Sometimes it was difficult to tell what

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Published: Feb 15, 2022

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