After the US Civil War, thousands of Southerners moved to Brazil, and a Brazilian city still carries their name. Brazil's emperor, Dom Pedro II, wanted them to grow cotton, so he offered them land. Life in the tropics was hard, and many families gave up and went back home. The ones who stayed settled in the São Paulo countryside, around a town called Santa Bárbara d'Oeste. Slavery was still legal in Brazil until 1888, and some of the settlers bought enslaved people after they arrived. The settlers brought plows pulled by animals, at a time when many local farmers still worked the soil with hoes. In 1871, they started the first Baptist church in Brazil. They were Protestants, and the local Catholic cemetery would not bury them. So in 1867, one settler buried his wife on his own farm, and the other families buried their dead beside her. Their descendants still care for that field today. In 1900, the train station near their farms was renamed Villa Americana, after the American families living nearby. That stop grew into Americana, a Brazilian city of more than 230,000 people today. Over the generations, the families learned Portuguese, married Brazilians and became Brazilian. When Jimmy Carter visited in 1972, he was surprised to hear descendants speaking English with a South Georgia accent. For decades, the descendants held a yearly party with Confederate flags and hoop skirts. In 2022, the city of Santa Bárbara d'Oeste banned racist symbols, including the Confederate flag, from its events. Brazil kept the families, the plows and the churches, and voted the flag out of its public events.