Canaan's Land

About the Book

Despite the vast number of books about the Civil War in the United States, few have focused on a relatively unknown fact of the immigration of thousand of Confederate soldiers from the United States to Brazil shortly after the Civil War.  Their numbers range anywhere from census estimates of 8,000 to 40,000.

This historical fiction tells of a time in our history, when its Southern citizens were forced to either be subjected to humiliation and high taxation by the North, or take advantage of an offer made to them by Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil to homestead land in the Sao Paulo Province.

Fueled by bitterness over a lost cause, they left the United States and settled in South America.  To this very day, the descendents of these Confederate soldiers still live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Canaan’s Land allows the reader to experience this era in America’s history through the lives of a poor Confederate soldier, a driven Southern aristocrat, and a passionate mulatto slave.

About the Author

I am a writer of history. I grew up with a wild imagination and the tools to put that imagination to work. My mother’s people were Yankees and my father’s people were Confederates, and I’m an innocent by-product of that union. My first novel, “Canaan’s Land”, has long been in the making. Years of listening to the two of them argue over whose side was better led to the creation of this book. I hope this story lays to rest any misgivings either one of them may have for each other’s people.