Washing and ironing
has been my support. I have sometimes cooked.
Opinions
"I don't know what I think about the young people. Seems to me they
coming to nothing. Lot of them do wrong just because they got a chance
to do it. I'm a christian. I belong to the A.M.E.'s. You know how they
do.
Song
1
I belong to the band
That good old Christian band
Thank God I belong to the band.
Chorus
Steal away home to Jesus
I ain't got long to stay here.
2
There'll I'll meet my mother,
My good old christian mother,
Mother, how do you do;
Thank God I belong to the band.
I can't remember the music. But that's on old song we used to sing 'way
back yonder. I can't remember any more of the verses. You got enough
anyhow."
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Emma Foster
1200 N. Magnolia, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 80
"Yes'm, I was born in time of slavery--seven years before surrender.
No'm, I wasn't born in Arkansas. Born in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
"I remember hearin' the big guns shoot. I was small and I didn't know
what it was only by what they told me.
"My parents belonged to the Harts.
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