WI after the Civil War and during Reconstruction, a significant amount of the ex-Confederate elite had left the American South to become plantation owners elsewhere? Where would they go and what would be capable of causing such an ‘exodus’?
I believe they would go to either Cuba or, more likely, Brazil. Dom Pedro II was interested in growing cotton and contacted several Confederates. A few thousands Confederates immigrated to Brazil, where their descendants still live today as the ‘Confederados’.
If Lincoln had chosen a Radical Republican VP, then the Reconstruction likely would have been much harsher than Johnson’s OTL ‘Presidential Reconstruction.’ Could this have led Pedro to make a second call for ex-Confederates, which may have been answered with much more vigor by the disenfranchised and threatened Confederate elite?
I believe they would go to either Cuba or, more likely, Brazil. Dom Pedro II was interested in growing cotton and contacted several Confederates. A few thousands Confederates immigrated to Brazil, where their descendants still live today as the ‘Confederados’.
If Lincoln had chosen a Radical Republican VP, then the Reconstruction likely would have been much harsher than Johnson’s OTL ‘Presidential Reconstruction.’ Could this have led Pedro to make a second call for ex-Confederates, which may have been answered with much more vigor by the disenfranchised and threatened Confederate elite?