Rosa Lindsey
From:
Arkansas
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Rosa Lindsey
302 S. Miller Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 83
"I was born in Georgia and I'm 83.
"My white folks was named Abercrombie.
"I don't remember my mother and I hardly remember my father. My white
folks raised me up. I 'member my missis had me bound to her when I was
twelve. I know when my grandma come to take me home with her, I run
away from her and went back to my white folks.
"My white folks was rich. I belonged to my young missis. She didn't
'low nobody to hit me. When she went to school she had me straddle the
horse behind her. The first readin' I ever learned was from the white
folks.
"I think the Yankees took Columbus, Georgia on a Sunday morning. I
know they just come through there and tore up things and did as they
pleased.
"I stayed there a long time after the Yankees went back.
"Old master wasn't too old to go to war but he didn't go. I think he
had to dodge around to keep the Yankees from gettin' him. I think he
went to Texas but we didn't go.
"I loved my white folks 'cause I knowed more about them than anybody
else.
"I come here to Arkansas with a young white lady just married. She
'suaded me to come with her and I just stayed.
"Biggest thing I have did is washin' and ironin'. But now I am doing
missionary work in the Sanctified church.
"I don't know 'bout the younger generation. Looks like 'bout near
ever'body lost now. There's some few young people is saved now but
they ain't many."
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