After the Civil War, a former Confederate army surgeon from South Carolina travelled through Brazil to judge whether defeated Southerners could make new homes there. His day-by-day journal of 1865 describes the farms, soils, crops, towns and customs he found around São Paulo and Campinas, and the planters and officials who received him.
A key document of the Confederate emigration to Brazil; slavery still existed there and his attitudes reflect it. Download the free EPUB.