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Confederate colonies were made up of Confederate refugees who were displaced or fled their homes during or immediately after the American Civil War. They migrated to various countries, but especially Brazil , where slavery remained legal , and to a lesser extent Mexico and British Honduras (modern Belize ).
In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama sailing along the eastern coast. A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Portobelo (Beautiful Port) which he named.
Mexico and Panama share a common history in the fact that both nations were colonized by the Spanish Empire. In 1821, both nations obtained independence from Spain and Panama became part of the Gran Colombia. In 1831, the Gran Colombia dissolved into three separate nations (Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) with Panama remaining part of Colombia.
The History of Panama. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-33322-4. Johnson, Willis Fletcher (1906). Four Centuries of the Panama Canal. New York, New York: Henry Holt and Co. OCLC 576076780. Lafeber, Walter. The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective (3rd ed. 1990). McCullough, David (1977).
William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary.In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of "manifest destiny", Walker organized unauthorized military expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies.
President Zachary Taylor, an Army hero during the Mexican-American War, owned slaves but suggested that recently formed California and New Mexico ban slavery in their state constitutions. He died ...
Richard Launcelot Maury, a Confederate Colonel who relocated to Mexico after the American Civil War; he was the son of Matthew Fontaine Maury who developed the idea for the New Virginia Colony. The New Virginia Colony (Spanish: Nueva Colonia de Virginia) was a colonization plan to resettle ex-Confederates in central Mexico after the American ...
This definition matches modern political borders. Central America begins geographically in Mexico, at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's narrowest point, and the former country of Yucatán (1841–1848) was part of Central America. At the other end, before its independence in 1903 Panama was part of South America, as it was a Department of ...