Granny Interview (Slavery/picking cotton/experiencing heaven)

hello my name is Eric green I'm interviewing my great-grandmother those they don't know what you know a great-grandmother yes that's my mother's mother mother so since 93 years old she's 93 years old and I'm going to ask you a few questions for this history project so the first question I'm going to ask her is how was your life growing up in the early nineteen hundreds and you know how did you make it through your early childhood and what do you lastly remember when I was gone but I was telling us when I was going to school in which student country what time we had a look up to sue it's a one room just had a one room that's where I would school in our room schoolhouse and and we had fun my childhood was he was fun I was in the clutter we need help the stuff that y'all have now we know about what we have no radios and I feel like that no TV no radio what they we don't they receive a phone at night you know the kids will all get together we would always sit out and and you know like we were saying yeah we were x1w we would actually learn on the words you know like we put name a word we said what beast are we what what do be stubborn when they start with stuff like that you know Anna and and it would be we have a big Osaka peanut we have peanuts II know I'm wrong about no he cannot take it as we had we went out in the woods and get Gregory set to hit the net and then we would have a hammer and we were correct ahead picking up two new hitter up here what we would pick up this it's a good it would have you caught out of it that's what we do that's a that's what we missed a we did that that's what I did at home Lee's at home and then we were read books and we had a fireplace and we'd sit up with baked potatoes in the fireplace had we put our sweet potatoes of it hit the fireplace and pick up baby our potatoes in the fireplace and sometimes we didn't bake them we would do we would peel sweet potatoes and we had a big oh I'd be the line stove a big old heater y'all know what I'm telling but the big iron either and he brought it with wood and we were / - but the feeling of sweet potato sandwich and slicing would slice him up and lay on top of the stove and cook them till they brown we would have fun on it ever even better and then in the morning time we couldn't leave the beds of the sunrise I did it and he could we look stayed a bit heated laughs I said to bear to the sunrise you said you'd lay the first area to the sunrise he's lazy and before I will go to school yeah I got a big enough lie go to school I had to count the milk before I went to lie to get everything and you want to need to leave at home relieving your you had to make up your bed you didn't even leave who believed that bed we had to get him clean up the house and I had to go milk the cows I had to clouds the milk my brother's never slop the Hogs and I can rip to cows when I've milked the cow and when I bring me in my mother would always strain the milk but I had 2,000 but before I go to school in the morning time and we had about we're about two miles of walking school I don't know what news about how funny we had to work it was something from here to fool town but anyway we had a long ways to walking school we had to leave early you know we always would camp we had a little bucket you know what I did I would ever yeah we would have my [ __ ] and say hey either did it help home food we didn't have sandwiches like y'all feels like ham sounds and stuff like that we would have a business in bacon and you know a bucket like this sometimes we would have a sound on Fridays on fire when we go to school we sometimes we would have ham sandwiches like that cuz you know we killed all except me you know you know our deadliest Achilles we ate our homes in kind of we didn't know what about me so my dad a kid we had beef we kept our beef you know hall and talked with the hogs and hogs and I did I used to tie you to chop climb to take on the deed sweet potatoes all of that I did all that and Tina we had to fill out people we raised we raised everything we ate just about it and we had and we raised peanuts and we had to go pull up the peanuts we pour the peanuts if we had to shake the drink out huh and you stir them on the wagon and then then that's we get all the crop on the peanuts pull it up and we have to brand my thumb on top of the house you know so they can dry and you know soon so the peanuts could dry and then we had to pick the fingers off the back and put them on the set so tell me we have a site that big fears and come time to get the car after the car dragon got in didn't have a wagon and we had to go pull car no we had to pull the corn off the stock and put it in the wagon how was your how was your life you know in school did you go to school with black kids oh no no no no we do you know what's gonna know know why can't we was gonna break he looks like it ain't no white kids know why can't had schools but we're bleeding we go never won any school any time no one else we used to plan about a school and they had buses Academy school but we had to walk the whites already had buses you know either des Plantes or take him to school oh we were getting sued sometimes being raining my daddy would character in the wedding yeah he get septum you to put it up to the wagon Akash the school yes sir we know murder I didn't know cars and nothing no buses what no buses they want to see you know and we used to play baseball it's do we have baseball play baseball girls and boys both face baseball it's scoot on the ground and basketball to the head bed but I've never deflated to God I didn't play you know - did you ever experiencing you like segregation growing up in your early you know adult small no no no we couldn't even vote we couldn't vote well yeah have you ever have you ever voted before my booty when I got married how old was that where our new sheriff how about that a photo for you voting so tell me about your grandfather and your great-grandfather your great-grandmother you know my mother my mother daddy was a head like me because hitting my mama daddy your daddy was a white man he was a slave he brought slaves in so slaves I remember used to sit out and tell us about huh your daddy used to say say ladies and his mother was a black woman he said only time he saw his mom when he would smile be wedding in the fear she was a big black mama he said daddy would have him on a horse you knew all these rifles other kids on the bus where somebody did my grandfather and he would ride with your daddy she's dead already did treat him nice he's my whole is bright because my nothing to do it him he said his daddy's wife was nice to him she was white but she was not he said he you know he just like for 20 he was that he was just like a white boy you know they did he get everything he wanted and he said his daddy used to you know go knew how to go riding on the field looking at the sleigh see if they worked it he said he'd be riding with his dad daddy ever sitting up in front of him he said there's the one time he was seeing my wife tend to fear working he weren't allowed to go to his mother and say one day here his daddy told her I was selling your mama he said he never forget back and I he said he liked to change Ronde that's how he see his mama he said he was a whole lot of [ __ ] it was a lot of that same I was a big old bright boy was thinking her I said put the chains I wrote myself write me instead of hit him up on this big old long flat song so to build a long flat phone and said it was big no-no mama said he put it my grandfather a foot is my mama on a flat phone and said you know what it was bid you know who the best the best needed the best one said he'd get up and fill them they don't said he was feeling muscles on a normal day and he said that's where he sold them - older [ __ ] and he said I was the last time he shot his mama so he never did see her no more he said from deadly bitter when he was a little boy so he said when you guys wrote are you gonna find him two brackets on either fact he was about mother mother one blanket stop oh yeah he said when he got girl he got upset his dad asked him and did you wanna stay with my race to go with your mama's race and you do I want to go with my mama racer yeah I said it right then and said his daddy came I think he said that 25 but $30 he said I was a lot of money back then and he said tell me about my great-grandfather you fell in love and how you got kids and you know who met him my mom darris father my dad is fine my daddy my daddy and his sister had a stepmother cuz they they his mother was sick you know she wasn't one of the kind of the vector using the streets and go that's Towanda now she's heavy my dad is now that my dad and I was a heavy me and my mother was a fraud Indian my dad is anomalous and uh you wins but anyway after she had him after my grandfather after she had him I take you back to class right after she had healing my grandfather married again and so he my grandfather raised my dad and his sister and oh yeah you know we are richer her father found me took my father and then after she got after she died she got sick I don't know I don't wanna say no everybody else was married when I was September gonna get married and so I already go stay with him too hip huh so he had a brother hip-hop affair because she was sick and then after she died after she died did not stayed on with my grandfather and after I saved my grandfather my grandfather used to work for white man that had our chicken farm and he used to raise chickens put his right man and then I think where I was saying I started working for them and that's how I met your words what your daddy my husband he was working it so he was pumping gas at the store no working in the house cook it out I would cook for the white folks and he would pump gas and did work in the store sells stuff in the stone Kevin sell stuff so that's how I met you glad I met you and for your great river and I do we got married you know and that we got married well already had monsters already mothers oh yeah I had mugs in before they're married you know so did anyway yeah marked out of Betty and Marc their bidding and June there was all reason nothing so in dinner did my husband left her with the st. Louis and got a job and did he sit for me in the head you didn't arrest him for the rest it was more never separate and and ready morning reserved right crossed the river for East st. Louis Bobby hey beautiful was born in East st. Louis yeah I didn't have her two kids born in trust him and there was an original rest it was born at home the head of midwives it wasn't oh god they're midwives coming in but I didn't have a to vote in hospital that that was done and that was up and ready and when anyone ever born I love my outside I couldn't see have to shoot aboard I could see that's what I said what I said I can see y'all I said I said I can't see it they were there I can see when they're over in my room and here's a lot of women who's in the room you don't get every two three women to say room at that time and and I said well sorry are you gonna continue see five miles every woman's that showers would be my mom they say have a madman a about to look good wanna see this everything ready kidding I want to see pride this graduated to see my kids outside to see my baby he said I can't working with me a weapon reaching did it lady get the date that didn't help coming in and she said can you see that yeah that's like a so a little bit she kept on a couple of like that I guess that I could see you know Carl birthday who is it you got one Manju one day cause amazing even don't want to see ya and uh but anyway no I were trying to read that the language to heaven October she said you know what you didn't go to heaven again you that someday give me you know and but I was in the pastor and it will never display just to there to see agencies all around me it was gonna green pasture yeah thought the reg was gone I didn't go blind but I could see it and they said hey daddy dad I'm looking at one for real you know I said I don't care what they said so she was too pretty I'd never seen a place like that the flavor dis angels and they were just all around me and they had Wayne's dressed in white and had wings and it was a green pasture and I did when I told I've told I don't buy that and count and she said she's got to give me one they didn't it was someone real no like that for you were to sleep as a year she said ever said and what do they call it so she said that's what they were did had you thinking that so you didn't go to him mmm ready yeah yeah when people would bomb they were so big today I was at home it was a doctor doctor come to town they wanted me but it was a doctor his head was so big and until they had a move I didn't know I didn't know where to travel living off they'll try get his head up he kept his head and put it out yeah I get worked alongside I used to wait for 40 days yeah water ironing clothes wash their clothes clean house I did all of it let me get my hand no good morning I'm picking cotton chopping cotton how much were you paid for doing it oh uh kind of fitness of the day Fitness is a dinner for chopping cotton ain't kidding how does it work and it left him there went up to sit in the fire I think before I left the farm but they did go up to a dog and for picking cotton they would figure well it's just a plant ready I got such a pound a pound of cotton I think of a physicist of mom but she's I used to pick three or four hundred five God knows I could pick three on a pile of cotton easy done today if I get up there in the morning can my brother heat sword fire plan 500 we really good money that I could give you a little grit for nickel that time you know anything digging you the boss soda pop for nickel like it is man coffee you get a compound accomplished in the process do you think kids now should be thankful they should be thankful they are these guys nothing y'all don't know y'all that mean I don't even know what work is y'all don't even know where what it is yeah y'all we do - we're gonna bother you said what alright wait a moment so what was you gonna run away you go run - so everybody else was raised like that everybody I'd like that but you know my daddy always yeah we were no sharecroppers so my dad already rented his religious land and we went to play with it go to feel whenever he got ready you know he won't like the sharecropper then my dad had [ __ ] on student you know work for that house check from where they had to be they have to be there had to be in the field and a son time they'd be there but we didn't have to be there seven times and then add to what Clem - twelve o'clock before they go home for lunch but look at me we didn't have to do that and that's the one good thing about us we understand you fear that long but we had yeah we had to be in the field with a sunrise done when your son Riley was in the field we were to accept I would be so dark when we go and get that photo shot right yeah no we didn't lay no [ __ ] if you got daylight honey and dad said no didn't know better stand on there to the sunrise no busted yeah house cleaning up and everything I was like you know in your adult days when you raise you know your seven kids how was how was that you know being a mother yeah yeah already already chose kids myself uh-huh when I did everything cuz given anyone would get up my thighs in the morning time Liza so she did you think about how rested my hey rusty yeah I used to get up when dead in their wedding day my kids didn't know my boys didn't know what I wanted to get up I get out I get up me fires I think the rule under everything be ready when they get up they clothes would be out and everything and I did that I could have made the fires in the morning John surely he'll warm house when they get up and uh and then oh yeah my husband left me when I was ready when I was friends with anybody left yeah he does see it was five myself reseller and dude from then on and that's not they're not everything I was you guys we hit everything had to do everything did I already go get on welfare and they never did go home break I see today I always kept a gross appeal I didn't have money cuz you know little brother ever get hey I wrote the grocery and I did when I get my check I don't go play the grocery at all and you know always failing bills I'm doing this one thing I paid my bills I mean the furniture stuff when I go get funny I always take my bed watching always go get [ __ ] whenever I want to get somebody did you know I did oh yeah then after that I really that's a beautiful bride get ready to graduate yeah he come back my mom my lover come back he didn't come back to say what he come back here and if he thought he couldn't come back to us and [ __ ] I don't need you know that I read these kid I don't need you now and say he was still running the streets no he was here on the streets and going with women even though I knew that because his up told me that the way he come up that a woman he was fitting with giving the facts what better City he knew I knew all that and she called and told me about it about how you run the streets and drink so he gonna come up there now it at that time I heard of you you ain't got no job and no way you woke up I can't mess up things I sake so check him up in his head you can't come back you wake up I can't mess up nothing man and he didn't know I already knew all going on down there and be you know he laughing and then instead of said you graduate I would listen for him they said anything brothers and they had left us more so you me he didn't even stay and biblical graduate that Thursday he left that winsy kid he was fishing River graduate people didn't know that though but June doing Jews and standing and you know happy he was running the streets you go don't you rip and run her sweet down and stuff and I've told the kids I said you know what I say he dragging going on if he's down the first thing he gonna be looking for y'all no good news I just got mad at Jimmy what he said it I said he gonna be looking for y'all to him praying every juicer I don't play that so I'm telling the big old and put him in ever but look at matter what he said he said it he said what if he do understand that big old I'm putting my neck down and it in the ground upside down with his head down coming up and I was a Jew you don't read it he said we go go bury him for he didn't first sorry but you didn't feel like that I think given the what do you know the part no well no by what he was doing it they didn't even know law step I didn't tell Mikey gentle I used to live to eternity Davidson I'm somebody you would you would meet a certain ethic but he can't put it back then no he chanted got saved you guys say this ain't too bad before you die he married you know but I didn't sign no divorce so did and I did heroin Ruben Ruben and then we went to college did not get hit every day today I didn't do that and there was on Thursday I did have some money chair every day through the weekend you know said I'm saddest now Monday morning I wrote run around that to the brackets in my little a did I might I be that made I've seen it too many people knew when I was in college he didn't you know he doing nothing did nothing wrong yeah I read em to you all by myself Judith who who is Lily be Knorr who is Lily be Knorr how would you describe yourself huh how would you describe yourself great like who are you now how would you describe yourself who is Lily be knows a strong one strong wicked woman and a crystal a deep it believe in Jesus Christ everyone for him I wouldn't be where I am I now yes yes he got defeated on him how did what I did oh he always was the head of my life and I said like he's when the kid was coming up I was saying you know no nothing get pregnant why they was with me but when they need I want I want I don't wanna die to keep from going but would it left that door I said lord I said it in your hand and I just would leave the guard but take care of him hmm see I did raise it by myself one for God I couldn't raise him so whatever they won't got to do ask the Lord to be with you know the people I don't see him take the dead back and even when it was in the classes to me because they died even I pray for the funny for these subjects you know something that be hard on his seven and I'm afraid three for the Lord and even that the knowledge in the world enough to learn and I wasn't my mother [ __ ] it better say you know better Houston she still do it my mother then she says me a brother close they caught Oh father day I guess the [ __ ] I cannot get a father come from bed so she sad with the mother in the father which I was mmm and every I said love to like you can't register cheer about a daddy that's a lie here's the way you can't yourself or friends front of them and they never know the whole time they've never known the man to come and spend the night with me they never know that they've never let me see that he would read register D when ready daddy and when I started ready start so honey he started trying to talk like a lady that man would say that job was not something I thought he it's time for you to go buddy you can't get red go to red here to go so it is this dumb but you can't read you can read you can read the kid you got there novella raise a kid but you've got to have a lot you haven't eaten all you got Christ in your life you can do anything I just want to begin by thanking my great grandmother for this awesome video and I hope that you were able to acknowledge the things that she's been through and also thanks to my cousin jeigh for being able to use equipment is you know come out here and help me record this video thank you [Music]

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Published: Wed Apr 16 2014