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 DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE ♪

♪ 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]