A chapter in history of which I was completely unaware comes from the country of Brazil.

As the Confederate States of America was coming to an end, a group of between 8000-20,000 Confederates picked up, moved to Brazil, and continued to practice slaveholding for another few decades.  They did so because slavery was legal in Brazil until 1888, and eventually the Confederates ended up mixing with the rest of the people there and stopped speaking English.  The did, however, continue to carry on some of the Confederate pageantry.

They lost the Civil War and fled to Brazil….

What I found interesting was that this shows how slavery could have ended in the Untied States, rather than through civil war.