NEXT ON KENTUCKY LIFE
THE "CONFEDERADOS" OF BRAZIL
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FINDING FAMILY AMONG THE LOST
COLONY OF THE CONFEDERACY
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HELLO, I'M DAVE SHUFFETT
AND WELCOME TO A VERY SPECIAL
EDITION OF KENTUCKY LIFE
ON THIS PROGRAM WE'RE GOING ON
A TRIP TO THE DEEP, DEEP SOUTH
ALL THE WAY TO THE BACKROADS
OF BRAZIL IN SOUTH AMERICA
WE'RE GOING THERE TO VISIT SOME
FOLKS, WHO AMONG OTHER STATES
CAN TRACE THEIR FAMILY
ROOTS TO KENTUCKY
THEIR ANCESTORS LEFT THE
SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
IN WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED THE
LARGEST EXODUS OF U.S. CITIZENS
IN HISTORY
THEY STARTED WHAT
IS REFERRED TO BY SOME
AS "THE LOST COLONY
OF THE CONFEDERACY"
TODAY, THEY CELEBRATE THEIR
AMERICAN CONFEDERATE
AND SOUTHERN HERITAGE EACH YEAR
AT THE "FESTA CONFEDERADA"
THAT'S WHERE THEY DRESS UP LIKE
SOUTHERN BELLES AND SOLDIERS
SING AND DANCE TO "DIXIE"
AND EAT BISCUITS
AND FRIED CHICKEN
SO SIT BACK NOW AND RELAX
WHILE WE VISIT THE
"CONFEDERADAS"
AS THEY REMEMBER
THEIR OLD KENTUCKY HOME
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
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5,000 MILES SOUTH
OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE
ON THE DUSTY BACKROADS OF BRAZIL
OUT IN THE SUGAR CANE FIELDS
THERE IS A WELL-KEPT CEMETERY
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THE TOMBSTONES ARE IN ENGLISH
THE NAMES INSCRIBED ON THEM
ARE FAMILY NAMES FROM KENTUCKY
GEORGIA
AND OTHER PARTS
OF THE UNITED STATES
ON THE GROUNDS OF THE
CEMETERY IS A CHAPEL
THE SENTIMENTAL HEART OF
THE PEOPLE WHO GATHER HERE
ONCE A YEAR
TO REMEMBER THOSE
WHO CAME BEFORE THEM
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PART FESTIVAL AND
PART MEMORIAL SERVICE
STATE FLAGS FROM THE
HOMELANDS OF THEIR ANCESTORS
ARE CARRIED AND RAISED
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THEY BRING THEIR FOOD
AND THEIR MUSIC
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NOT THE TRADITIONAL
FOODS OF BRAZIL
INSTEAD, THEY MAKE FOODS LIKE
HAND-MADE BISCUITS FROM SCRATCH
USING RECIPES HANDED DOWN
THROUGH THE GENERATIONS
AND SOUTHERN STYLE FRIED CHICKEN
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YOU WILL NOT HEAR TRADITIONAL
BRAZILIAN SAMBAS OR BOSSA NOVAS
AT THE "FESTA CONFEDERADA"
THEY DRESS UP IN SOUTHERN
BELLE STYLE HOOP SKIRTS
AND CIVIL WAR UNIFORMS
AND DANCE TO MUSIC LIKE
"DIXIE" AND "CUMBERLAND GAP"
♪ ♪
♪ THE FIRST WHITE MAN
TO CUMBERLAND GAP ♪
♪ THE FIRST WHITE MAN
TO CUMBERLAND GAP ♪
♪ THE FIRST WHITE MAN
TO CUMBERLAND GAP ♪
♪ DR. WALKER, THE
NAME OF THIS CHAP ♪
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♪ SEPTEMBER MORNING IN '62 ♪
♪ SEPTEMBER MORNING IN '62...
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
AROUND THREE MILLION SOUTHERNERS
LEFT FOR NORTHERN U.S. CITIES
CALIFORNIA, CANADA,
EUROPE AND MEXICO
THE DESTINATION OF THE LARGEST,
MOST PROSPEROUS GROUP
NUMBERING UP TO 20,000 PEOPLE
WAS BRAZIL
NEAR THE SOUTHERN CITIES
OF SAO PAULO AND RIO DE JANEIRO
IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COLONY
NAMED "AMERICANA" BY THE LOCALS
IN HONOR OF THE AMERICANS
WHO LIVED THERE
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN MY MOTHER...
WHEN WE LIVED IN IPANEMA
ON THE BEACH FRONT THERE
IN RIO DE JANEIRO IN BRAZIL
UH, SHE WOULD PLAY
"DIXIE" AND SOUTHERN
A LOT OF SOUTHERN
MELODIES THAT SHE LOVED
SOMETIMES SHE WOULD JUST
SIT AROUND AND PLAY IT
SHE'D GO TO THE PIANO AND
START PLAYING, THINKING
UH, AND IT WAS UH... YOU CAN
PLAY "DIXIE" UH, SEVERAL WAYS
YOU CAN PLAY IT AS A HAPPY,
ALMOST DANCING TUNE
OR YOU CAN PLAY IT... AS A DIRGE
UH, AND UH, QUITE SAD
(Playing "Dixie")
MOTHER, WHO WE CALLED "MAE"
M- IT'S SPELLED M-A-E
WHICH IS PORTUGUESE
FOR "MOTHER"
MY MOTHER WAS BORN
IN, IN BRAZIL
UH, SHE WAS A VERY
INTERESTING CHARACTER
WHO UH, WAS FIERY
UH, FROM APPALACHIAN STOCK
AND UH, SHE... UH,
THE HARRIS'S CAME DOWN
THROUGH TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY
I CAME TO THIS COUNTRY
WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD
WE CAME TO THE UNITED
STATES IN 1935
AND WE LEFT THE UH, THE
CONFEDERATE COLONY THERE
'CAUSE MY FATHER DECIDED
THAT HE WANTED TO AMERICA
AMERICANIZE US
SO HE SENT THE THREE
CHILDREN UH, TO OHIO
AND UH... BUT THE
PEOPLE IN UH...
THE CONFEDERATES
AS THEY CALLED...
THEY CALLED THEMSELVES
CONFEDERADOS IN BRAZIL
THEY'RE MOSTLY BRAZILIAN
AND UH, ALL, ALL OF OUR COUSINS
I HAVE OVER 100
COUSINS IN BRAZIL
FROM THE CONFEDERATE COLONY
YOU COULD CALL THIS STORY
UH, THIS BRAZIL EXODUS
OR THE STORY OF THREE MONUMENTS
YOU UH, YOU HAVE IN BRAZIL NOW
A WASHINGTON MONUMENT-LOOKING,
RATHER SMALLISH UH, MONUMENT
LOOKS A LOT LIKE
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
AND OF COURSE IN WASHINGTON
WE HAVE UH, D.C.
WE HAVE THE MONUMENT, UH,
HUNDREDS OF FEET HIGH
AND THEN THERE'S
ANOTHER MONUMENT
ALMOST AS TALL AS THE
WASHINGTON MONUMENT
NOT VERY MUCH SHORTER
IN KENTUCKY
UH, AND, AND IT'S THE
JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT
LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE
WASHINGTON MONUMENT
HAS AN ELEVATOR GOING
UP THE SAME WAY
MANY PEOPLE GO UP THERE AND...
NOT NEARLY AS MANY AS GOES
TO THE ONE IN WASHINGTON
BUT IT SHOWS YOU A LITTLE BIT
IT'S A KIND OF A GRAPHIC
OF UH, HOW AMERICANS FEEL AND
WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN HISTORY
THESE THREE MONUMENTS
JUST THINK ABOUT
THESE THREE MONUMENTS
OF UH, THREE DIFFERENT
GROUPS OF PEOPLE
PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THIS STORY
BECAUSE THEY'RE RELATED
TO A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE
THERE WERE... IN BRAZIL ITSELF
MY ESTIMATE IS AROUND 20,000
MY RESEARCH SAYS ABOUT 20,000
THESE ARE AMERICANS
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO
WERE FROM OUR COUNTRY
WHO CHOSE TO LEAVE
UNDER VERY STRANGE
CIRCUMSTANCES
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THE UH, THE STORY BEGAN
WHEN UH, THE, THE WAR ENDED
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
COURSE THE OBVIOUS THING THAT
HAPPENED AFTER THE WAR WAS
HERE YOU HAD FOUR
MILLION SOUTHERNERS
WITH NO CITIZENSHIP
UH, ROBERT E. LEE WAS
PRACTICALLY THE FIRST MAN
TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE
HE HAD TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE
WELL, UH, IT TOOK
ROBERT E. LEE 'TIL 1976
TO GET HIS CITIZENSHIP BACK
HE'D BEEN DEAD FOR 100 YEARS
UH, WHEN HE GOT IT BACK
AND UH, ROBERT E. LEE
SAID, "OKAY
WE HAVE TO BUILD THE SOUTH,
I DON'T WANT TO GO TO BRAZIL"
HE SAID
"I DON'T THINK YOU
SHOULD GO TO BRAZIL"
AND HE SAID, "STAY AND REBUILD"
'CAUSE THERE WAS A LOT
THAT REBUILDING TO DO
AFTER GENERAL SHERMAN HAD HIS
LITTLE TRIP THROUGH THE SOUTH
THEY, THEY FOUGHT
A DEFENSIVE WAR
UH, INVASION BY THE NORTH
AND THEY REMEMBERED THAT
AND UH, THEY DIDN'T
WANT TO FACE UP TO THAT
SO WE WERE MILITARILY
IN- INVADED
AND WE WENT TO BRAZIL
AND THAT'S HOW WE GOT THERE
BUT IT WAS A LONG AND PAINFUL
AND VERY DISTASTEFUL PERIOD
IN AMERICAN HISTORY
YOU START UH, THINKING ABOUT
WHY THESE PEOPLE WENT TO BRAZIL
FROM UH, THE SOUTHERN STATES
UH, THEY CERTAINLY
DIDN'T GO FOR SLAVERY
BECAUSE SLAVERY WAS
ABOLISHED IN BRAZIL UH
IN A CERTAIN FORM
IT WAS ABOLISHED IN THE SAME WAY
IT WAS ABOLISHED IN NEW JERSEY
THEY KNEW THAT SLAVERY... IF
IT HADN'T BEEN KILLED ALREADY
WAS ON THE WAY OUT
BUT THEY ENDED THEIR SLAVERY
WITH A MERE ANNOUNCEMENT
THEY DIDN'T HAVE
630,000 PEOPLE KILLED
AS THEY WERE IN THIS WAR HERE
BRAZIL WAS WELL KNOWN
IN THE SOUTH
UH, PEOPLE... THERE
WAS A ROMANTIC NOTION
WILLIAM HERNDON HAD
WRITTEN A BOOK
ABOUT BRAZIL THAT WAS
VERY POPULAR IN THE SOUTH
SO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
HIS BOOK ABOUT, ABOUT BRAZIL
WERE SOLD
IN THE, IN THE UNITED STATES
AND MOSTLY IN THE SOUTH
AND THEY READ ABOUT... THEY
KNEW A LOT ABOUT BRAZIL
THEY KNEW UH, OTHER
PEOPLE HAD WRITTEN...
OTHER PEOPLE HAD SPOKEN ON IT
MARK TWAIN, WHILE
LIVING IN CINCINNATI
HAD READ THE HERNDON BOOK AND
DECIDED TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE
IN BRAZIL
HE MADE IT AS FAR AS NEW ORLEANS
JOHN MUIR-- WHOSE
TREK ACROSS AMERICA
BEGAN IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
INTENDED TO GO ALL
THE WAY TO BRAZIL
EVEN THOMAS EDISON
WHILE LIVING IN LOUISVILLE
LEFT FOR BRAZIL
TO LIVE AND WORK
HE PLANNED ON BOARDING THE
SHIP WITH THE CONFEDERADOS
BUT NONE OF THEM
MADE IT TO BRAZIL
THESE PEOPLE DECIDED
WE'RE GOING TO GO
SOMEWHERE, LIKE BRAZIL
WHERE WE CAN LIVE OUR LIFE
UH, SORT OF LEADS INTO THEIR
FAVORITE HYMN OF SO MANY OF THEM
"THERE IS A HAPPY LAND"
UH, THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THAT
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR úA CITY
ON THE HILL'
BIBLICAL TERMS
THAT'S HOW THEY WERE RAISED
SO BRAZIL WAS IT
AND THEY MOVED THERE
YOU CAN IMAGINE
THE, THE FEELINGS
OF THESE PEOPLE
LEAVING ON THESE SHIPS
WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO, TO
DO AND WHAT THEY WERE THINKING
THE THING ABOUT
GOING TO BRAZIL WAS
YOU DIDN'T... ANYBODY HAS
ANY SENSE AT THAT TIME
WOULD KNOW, THAT IF
YOU GO 5,000 MILES AWAY
YOU'RE NOT COMING BACK
SHIPS WITH AS MANY AS
400 PEOPLE ON THEM
ALL CONFEDERATES HEADING SOUTH
LEAVING FROM NEW ORLEANS,
LEAVING FROM NEW YORK
FROM BALTIMORE
AND WE WENT TO BRAZIL
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UH, SO THE GROWTH CONTINUED,
ALMOST TO 1900
THEY KEPT COMING
THIS PUSH-PULL IMMIGRATION THING
UH, THE BROTHER
BROUGHT A BROTHER IN
THEY BROUGHT THEIR CHILDREN OUT,
THEY BROUGHT THEIR PARENTS DOWN
AND THAT'S HOW THEY WERE ABLE
TO FORM THEIR OWN CITY IN BRAZIL
THE CITY IS CALLED "AMERICANA"
IT'S LOCATED IN THE PROGRESSIVE
STATE OF SAO PAULO
AND IT UH, IT WAS ENTIRELY
FORMED BY AMERICANS
AND IT'S GROWN NOW
INTO A LARGE 200,000 CITY
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IN MY BOOK THAT'S CALLED THE
LOST COLONY OF THE CONFEDERACY
I HAVE OVER I THINK,
300 OR 400 FAMILY NAMES
THAT YOU CAN SEE UH,
HOW MANY KENTUCKIANS
HAVE GONE TO BRAZIL
IN THIS GROUP
THE HARRIS FAMILY
THE PYLES FAMILY
UH, EZEKIEL PYLES WAS MY
GRAND-GRAND-GRAND UH, GRAND
I THINK FIVE, UNCLE AND...
WHO CAME FROM KENTUCKY
TO BRAZIL
EZEKIEL PYLES, THAT'S THE...
HE WAS A PRIVATE IN
IN ONE COMPANY IN KENTUCKY
AND HE, HE WENT TO BRAZIL
HE BOUGHT A FARM IN BRAZIL
IN THE CITY CALLED
SANTA BARBARA DE OESTE
IT'S NEAR TO AMERICANA
THE CITY THAT THE CONFEDERADOS
UH, WENT TO
AND HE, HE HAD THIS FARM
OF CANE... HOW DO YOU SAY?
YEAH, THEY, THEY HAD HIS
BROTHER WILLIAM PYLES
HE WENT TO BRAZIL, TOO
THEM AND THEY, WELL, THEY HAD
A FAMILY THERE AND THOSE THINGS
I HAVE VISIT MUSEUMS
I HAVE VISIT UH, BATTLEFIELDS
UH, IT'S, IT'S GOOD TO
KNOW ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW
AND... I'M REAL...
I THINK MY, MY FAMILY'S PROUD
WE, WE, WE LEARNED A LOT
ABOUT AMERICAN THINGS
WHILE WE'RE HERE
I BECAME A BASEBALL PLAYER
PLAYED SEMI-PRO BALL
UH, I WAS IN WORLD WAR II
IN THE U.S. NAVY
ENLISTED MAN
AND I, I FELL IN LOVE WITH
CERTAIN PARTS OF THIS...
COUNTRY THAT I WANTED
TO LIVE IN, SO I WAS
I WAS PICKING HERE AND THERE
I KNOW FOR INSTANCE, ONE
REASON THAT I BOUGHT THE
NEWSPAPER IN KENTUCKY
WAS THAT I HAD READ
IN MY CHILDHOOD
JOHN FOX'S BOOK--
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
AND I SAID, "OH,
THIS IS A GREAT PLACE
THESE ARE MY KIND OF PEOPLE"
SO I KNEW EVENTUALLY,
DOROTHY AND I, MY WIFE
WOULD BUY THIS NEWSPAPER, IN
TAYLOR COUNTY AND, AND RUN IT
WHILE I WAS IN, IN KENTUCKY,
I WAS PUBLISHER AND EDITOR
I ALSO RAN MY OWN COLUMNS
AND I WROTE UH, A FEW
UH, SPECIAL STORIES
EDITORIALS
AND IN FACT, I GOT
IN SOME TROUBLE FOR
SOME OF MY EDITORIALS
'CAUSE I, I GAVE THEM MY
OPINION AS A CONFEDERATE
WOULD GIVE AN OPINION
NOW A CONFEDERATE IN BRAZIL
IS A VERY INTERESTING ITEM
HE IS, IS PURE
HE'S UNTARNISHED
HE HAS NEVER GONE THROUGH
THE JOHN UH, THE
JIM CROW PROBLEMS
HE'S... THE RACE PROBLEM
IS ONE HE HAS NEVER FACED
HE DIDN'T HAVE THAT IN BRAZIL
BRAZIL IS VERY TOLERANT
OF THE, THE RACES
IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST
TOLERANT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
SO THEY LOOK AT THINGS
A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY
AND I DID, I DID TOO
AND I WENT INTO
THE FOREIGN SERVICE
IN THOSE DAYS FOREIGN SERVICE
IN THE UNITED STATES
STATE DEPARTMENT
I WAS, I WAS BASED IN BEIRUT,
ECUADOR, IN MEXICO
AND THEN IN MY OWN
BIRTH COUNTRY-- BRAZIL
AND HERE I REACQUAINTED MYSELF
WITH THE CONFEDERATE
COLONY OF BRAZIL
WHICH NOW NUMBER
ABOUT 100,00 PEOPLE
THERE WAS A UH, INTERESTING
UH, OCCURRENCE IN MY CAREER
IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE
UH, BRAZIL WAS ONE OF MY
EARLIEST ASSIGNMENTS
AND UH, I WAS SENT
DOWN THERE AS CONSUL
AND UH, I WAS WORKING
OUT OF THE BIG CITY OF
SAO PAULO AT THAT TIME
AND ONE DAY UH, A FELLOW NAMED
JODY POWELL CAME IN MY OFFICE
AND SAID HE WAS... HE WAS
JIMMY CARTER'S PRESS MAN
AND HE SAYS HE'S LOOKING FOR
SOMETHING FOR JIMMY TO DO
HE'S WANTS... HE'S
RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
HE WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES
I SAID, "REALLY?"
I'D BEEN READING TIME MAGAZINE,
HE WAS ON THE COVER
SO I FIGURED I GOT A
PRETTY GOOD IDEA THAT UH
HE WAS GOING TO
RUN FOR PRESIDENT
AND I SAID, "WELL, WE COULD...
WE MIGHT GIVE HIM A HAND
IF HE WANTS TO UH, GO OUT AND
VISIT MY CONFEDERATE COUSINS
OUT IN UH, AMERICANA"
HE SAID, "AMERICANA,
WHAT'S THAT?"
AND SO I HAD TO EXPLAIN
THE STORY TO HIM
SO UH, SO JIMMY WALKED
AROUND WITH US AND, UH
AND THEN I WALKED HIM
THROUGH THE TOMBSTONES
AND EXPLAINED THE STORY
HE HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE STORY
ROSALYNN HAD, SHE KNEW THAT
A LOT OF PEOPLE CAME TO UH
LATIN AMERICA
SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE
WE'RE WALKING ALONG
AND SHE STOPPED
AND "HENRY WISE" IT
SAID ON THE TOMBSTONE
THAT WAS HE GREAT UNCLE
SHE'D DISCOVERED HIM
RIGHT THERE ON THE GROUND
AND THAT WAS, THAT
WAS A GREAT OCCASION
SHE COULDN'T STOP
TALKING ABOUT THAT
HAVING DISCOVERED HER UNCLE,
WHO'D LONG DISAPPEARED
HER FAMILY DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM
THERE HE IS BURIED RIGHT THERE
IN THAT BEAUTIFUL TOMBSTONE
(Music playing)
MY FAMILY HAS BEEN IN THE STATES
SINCE THE BEGINNING
OF THE UNITED STATES
UH, THEY FOUGHT THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
AGAINST UH, THE,
THE TYRANNY AND UH
AND AGAINST THE BRITISH ARMY
THEIR, MANY OF THEIR
PHILOSOPHERS AND HISTORIANS
HAVE BROUGHT UP
SOME OF THE THINGS
THAT AMERICA ADDED
TO BRAZILIAN CULTURE
ONE IS THE LOVE OF FREEDOM
THE IDEA OF FREEDOM
JEFFERSONIAN IDEA
UH, AND THEY, THEY FULLY
GIVE AMERICA CREDIT FOR THAT
I BELIEVE TODAY THAT I'M NOT
HERE TO JUDGE WHATEVER THEY DID
I MEAN, THEY WERE THERE
AND THEY HAD THEIR REASONS
TO DO WHATEVER THEY DID
BUT I'M... I CAN TELL YOU THAT
I WAS RAISED BY THESE PEOPLE
AND I NEVER LEARNED
ANYTHING NEGATIVE
I NEVER LEARNED UH,
TO HATE ANYBODY
I NEVER LEARNED BAD THINGS
I ONLY LEARNED THE MOST NOBLES
THINGS THAT YOU CAN SEE
YOU KNOW, RESPECT
EACH OTHERS RIGHT
RESPECT IDEAS, YOU KNOW
THE SENSE OF FREEDOM
THE SENSE OF BRAVERY
AND THE, AND THE, AND
THIS SPECIAL SPICES WHICH
TURNS ALL INTO REBELS
AND WE WILL NOT LET
ANYBODY OVERTHROW US
AND YOU KNOW, TAKE
OUR FREEDOM AWAY
OR TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY
SO, I THINK IT'S
KIND OF, YOU KNOW
BURIED DEEP INSIDE
OUR HEARTS, HERE
SO THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL
I MEAN, IF I FEEL PROUD ABOUT
ANYTHING, I FEEL PROUD ABOUT
THIS
I FEEL PROUD ABOUT THIS PEOPLE
I FEEL PROUD ABOUT BEING
A PART OF THE FAMILY
YOU KNOW, THOSE WARRIORS
WHO WERE, WHO WERE THERE
AND THEY SHED THEIR BLOOD
IN THE BATTLEFIELDS
NOT ONLY ONCE IN THE
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
BUT WHEN THEY MADE AMERICA
FREE, THEY WERE THERE
AND EVEN BEFORE THAT, IN THE
FRENCH INDIAN WAR, SO...
I, I THINK THAT EVEN BEING
A BRAZILIAN I HAVE ALL THE
THE RIGHTS AND THE REASONS TO
BE THE MOST PROUD AMERICANS
AND THE MOST PROUD SOUTHERNERS
SO, I THINK THAT'S THAT
WHAT MAKES UH, MY HISTORY
AND MY HERITAGE SPECIAL ABOUT IT
I MEAN I MIGHT BE THE ONLY
BRAZILIAN CELEBRATING
THE FOURTH OF JULY AND FIRING
UP FIREWORKS, YOU KNOW
(Laughing)
AND UH, AS MY GRANDFATHER
USED TO SAY, YOU KNOW
BRAZIL IS MY MOTHER COUNTRY
AMERICA IS MY
GRANDMOTHER COUNTRY
(Laughing)
IN RIO, WE LIVED AS ALMOST
ANY OTHER BRAZILIAN
WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT WE SPOKE
ENGLISH MOSTLY IN THE HOUSE
NOW WHEN I CAME... WHEN I
USE TO COME DOWN TO THE FARM
MY MOTHER WAS A DESCENDENT, SO
I LEARNED HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH
BEFORE I LEARNED PORTUGUESE
I LEARNED PORTUGUESE IN SCHOOL
AND I ONLY... MY GRANDMA USE
TO TEACH ME ENGLISH LESSONS
AND SHE USED TO WHIP ME
IF I DIDN'T DO THE LESSONS
AND... SHE WAS VERY NICE, BUT
SHE WANTED EVERYTHING DONE
VERY CORRECTLY
AND I STILL HAVE THOSE BOOKS
SO, WHAT I FEEL HERE IS...
UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S
NATURAL TO SPEAK ENGLISH
ALWAYS WAS NATURAL
NOT TODAY, BUT
THERE ARE A LOT...
IN THOSE TIMES WE USED
TO GO AND VISIT AROUND
I USED TO COME HERE AS A KID,
MY GR- MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER
WERE MARRIED IN THIS
CHAPEL IN 1948, SO
IT'S PART OF MY LIFE, MY
GRANDPA... MY, MY GRANDPA'S FARM
IS JUST ABOUT TWO...
A MILE OR TWO FROM HERE
WE TRAVELED DOZENS OF MILES
AND ONLY PEOPLE...
PEOPLE WOULD ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH
THE VAUGHNS
THE GEEZAS, AND THE
PYLES... THE TERRELLS
THE HALL'S WERE OVER THERE
AND THE McFADDENS
WERE OVER THERE
THERE WERE... THE JONESES
THERE WERE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE
ALL OVER, ALL OVER THE PLACE
FARMERS AND WE'D JUST
GO AND VISIT THEM
AND THEY'D COME AND VISIT US,
SO IT WAS PART OF OUR LIFE
IT WAS NATURAL TO SPEAK ENGLISH
WAS NATURAL JUST TO... YOU KNOW
HAVE THIS DIFFERENT LANGUAGE
HISTORY IS WRITTEN
BY THE VICTORS
THE... IF YOU WIN THE WAR,
YOU WRITE THE HISTORY BOOKS
I WROTE THE BOOK BECAUSE I
COULDN'T FIND ANOTHER BOOK
ON THE SUBJECT IN
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THERE WAS NO BOOK HERE
IN THE UNITED STATES
THAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON IT
THE BOOK WAS UH, SURPRISINGLY
WELL ACCEPTED AT THE BEGINNING
SO I WAS SURPRISED, BECAUSE
FOR INSTANCE, LET'S TAKE
FOR EXAMPLE, IN MICHIGAN
IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN
THE DETROIT NEWS WROTE UP THE
BOOK AND TALKED ABOUT THE BOOK
ON THE FRONT PAGE
ON A SUNDAY EDITION AND
PUT A COLORED MAP ON IT
MY BOOK IS PUBLISHED
ALSO IN PORTUGUESE
AND IT'S CALLED A COLONIA
PERDIDA DE CONFEDERACION
EXCUSE MY PORTUGUESE
UH, BUT UH, AND SO, UH
THAT'S MY LIFE SINCE I'VE
COME TO THE UNITED STATES
I'M, I'M NOW RETIRED
FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT
AND UH, HAVEN'T YET
GONE BACK TO KENTUCKY
BUT UH, WE, WE INTEND
TO DO SO IF POSSIBLE
TO THE KENTUCKIANS I WOULD
SAY UH, WE'VE GOT COUSINS
BY THE THOUSANDS
IN BRAZIL
AND THEY CARE ABOUT YOU
THEY WRITE ABOUT AMERICA
IN THEIR NEWSPAPERS
AND THEY TALK ABOUT
YOU ALL THE TIME
WE HAVE ABOUT 180 MILLION
DOWN THERE NOW
SO WE, WE HAVE A FRIEND
THERE ANY TIME WE WANT TO
JOIN UP WITH THEM
WE KNOW NOW THAT
THE CONFEDERADOS
HAVE GOTTEN QUITE BRAZILIAN
NOW THE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED
STATES UH, LOOK AT THIS
AND THEY'RE A BIT SADDENED BY IT
UH, AND YOU CAN'T BLAME THEM
THE BRAZILIANS... THEY
DON'T LOOK AT IT AS A
AS SOMETHING TO BE UNHAPPY
ABOUT OR HAPPY ABOUT
THEY LIVE THEIR LIVES JUST
LIKE ANY BRAZILIAN WOULD TODAY
AND LIVING A GOOD
PRODUCTIVE BRAZILIAN LIFE
ENJOYING THEIR LIFE
BECOMING SOME BESTAS
PLAYING SAMBAS
PLAYING THEIR GUITARS
DOING THE HAPPY THING
(Singing and playing music)
I'D THINK IT'S A VERY SAD
THING, CERTAINLY FOR THEM
IF THEY DO FORGET
THIS, THE STORY WILL DIE
IF IT'S NOT PRESERVED
AND I THINK THAT UH,
WE WOULD FEEL VERY BAD
IF THIS WERE LOST
JUST TO REMEMBER
ALWAYS REMEMBER
(Music playing)
"I WAS ONLY TEN YEARS OLD
"BUT I REMEMBER IT PERFECTLY
"THE SHIP ON WHICH
WE FINALLY EMBARKED
"WAS AN OLD DILAPIDATED
BRIG CALLED BRIG DERBY
"ON LOOKING BACK NOW, ONE
WONDERS WHY SENSIBLE MEN
"WITH SUCH A CROWD OF
HELPLESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN
"SHOULD UNDERTAKE SUCH
A HAZARDOUS VENTURE
AS CROSSING THE GREAT OCEAN"
(Music playing)
"DAD-- DETERMINED TO BUILD
A REAL AMERICAN HOUSE
(Music playing)
"I SHALL NEVER FORGET THAT
TRIP OVER THE MOUNTAINS
"CROSSING THE MANY STREAMS
"THE FULL STORY
WILL NEVER BE TOLD
"FOR THOSE WHO KNEW IT BEST
HAVE LONG SINCE GONE TO REST"
SARA BOLOGNA
(Music playing)
NOT ALL THE CONFEDERATES, WHO
LEFT FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR
DID SO VOLUNTARILY
IN CLINTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
ONE GROUP OF KENTUCKIANS WERE
ROUNDED UP BY UNION FORCES
AND BANISHED TO CANADA
IT WAS BECAUSE OF SUCH
TREATMENT THAT KENTUCKY
EVEN THOUGH IT HAD LARGELY
SUPPORTED THE UNION IN SENTIMENT
DURING THE WAR
IT WAS AFTER THE WAR
THAT KENTUCKY SYMPATHIES LEANED
TOWARD THE DEFEATED CONFEDERACY
WELL, THANKS FOR JOINING US
FOR THIS EXCURSION TO THE PAST
AND AS WILLIAM FAULKNER PUT IT
"THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD"
I'M DAVE SHUFFETT, I'LL SEE YOU
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♪ ...WAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE ♪
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♪ I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE,
HURRAH, HURRAH ♪
♪ IN DIXIELAND
I'LL TAKE MY STAND ♪
♪ TO LIVE AND DIE IN DIXIE ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY ♪
♪ AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE ♪
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[Closed captioning
by the KET Caption Center]
[was made possible by a grant]
[from the Honorable Order
of Kentucky Colonels]
[and in part by a grant
from The Lexington Lions Club]
[and a gift from the
Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E.
Deutsch Foundation]