When Captain John Cardoso is approached by Lady Lucinda Curtis on the docks of New Orleans, the Confederacy is about to fall.  Desperate and mourning her son’s death, Lucinda begs him to ferry her family to Brazil.  Hard up from the Union blockade, Cardoso agrees under one condition: they cannot bring enslaved humans.  After some hesitation, she agrees.  It isn’t the only agreement she’ll go back on.  Battling plague, starvation, and an unexpected pregnancy, their odyssey from New Orleans to São Paulo explores a family and continent in flux.

Inspired by the true story of the mass Confederate exodus to Brazil, THE CONFEDERADOS is a wry, lyrical account of emigration in a doomed attempt to avoid change.  Told through Cardoso’s letters, we are immersed in the secret world of Confederate slavers who seek to continue in Brazil’s hinterlands.  Their ruinous effect on local culture forces us to question: how did they get there?  And what remains of their presence?