DUNN Brazil, the Home for Southerners 1866 Post US Civil War Emingration

  

Brazil, the Home for Southerners: Or a Practical Account of What the Author, and Others, Who Visited that Country for the Same Objects, Saw and Did While in that Empire. Published: New York and New Orleans; George B.

Richardson and Bloomfield & Steel, 1866. Condition: Good+ (please see full item description for details). Description: iv, 272 pp, with frontis portrait of the author and folding colored map of Brazil and Guyana, in origInal green cloth binding. Minimal external wear, binding sound, but all pages are tanned, some with foxing. Short closed tear to map where it attached to the book. Previous owner's information on front free endpaper, bookseller ink stamp on front pastedown. Good to very good overall. An interesting and uncommon work written for Southerners who were considering leaving the United States in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Borba de Moraes (p 235): Many American Southerners desired to emigrate to Brazil after the Civil War, for this country lent itself to the cultivation of cotton, and practiced slavery. Dunn, and others, came to make a study of Brazil. In this book he publishes several studies written by him and other emissaries, about the economic and agricultural situation in Brazil, with statistics. " Dunn "argues that conditions in the postwar south are unacceptable, disputes arguments that Brazil provides little economic opportunity for Southerners, and describes the land (Lizzieland') which he as picked out for a colony. He includes descriptions of the Brazilian government, tables of weather information, copies of letters and reports which favorably discuss economic prospects in Brazil... See also Nevins II, p. 188 ("the first insight into Confederate exiles in South America"); Sabin 21319. See our other South and Central America. Condition Descriptions Defined: We grade our books and dust jackets using the traditional language of the antiquarian book trade. In brief: Fine is the highest grade and means essentially as new, without visible faults or defects; Near Fine means approaching fine, but with one or more very minor defects or faults, which will be noted; Very Good means the book shows some general (but not too offensive) signs of wear and use, which will be noted; Good means the book is complete and intact, but has more wear or some internal markings.

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• Author: Dunn, Ballard S.
• Subject: Exploration and Travel
• Topic: South and Central America
• Binding: Hardcover
• Special Attributes: 1st edition
• Publisher: George B.

  Richardson and Bloomfield & Steel

• Publication Year: 1866
• Publication Location: New York and New Orleans