I am a senior citizen. I am from the 1860's. My husband was a career soldier. I have 4 kids and 8 granddaughters and 2 grandsons. They range from 7 to 30.  My grandchildren have jobs. I have not been to Louisiana in a while.
I was born in 1860. I am married to another slave. I was a slave for 10 years. We have two kids, 5 granddaughters and 2 grandsons. I have grandchildren. I live in Louisiana. I moved there two years ago. My whole family lives in Louisiana. My son works long hours as a mail carrier.
I never asked you what made you move to Louisiana? I have started planning my trip to Louisiana for this April and I can't wait to see you. Well, ever since the ware ended and we got emancipated, LA was giving out plots of land and me and Rosie couldn't turn it down.  Wow! What has life been like since you were emancipated?  It's been a lot better than it was. Still ain't all that safe for us though. But we have a pretty big community down here who watch out for each other. I can imagine. That's why I got out of the South. Even though the war changed things, there was still so much mistreatment. That's not the kind of life I wanted for my children. We had that option, but me and a lot of the other people felt like we should make a stand, them boys just gotta accept they lost and if we run, they'll think they won. I admire your strength. You are so right about taking a stand. What do you all do to keep safe?  Well, my wife is very big into the voodoo and she's been puttin hexes on anyone that comes around lookin to start trouble. I ain't into all that but it scares em off just as well.  Ha! Your wife's a good one. Don't nobody want to mess with a curse, that's for sho. You know it, I tell her she needs to leave that stuff alone before she wakes up somethin serious. That's our heritage, though. She's just practicing what they did on the motherland. I suppose. But we been going to church a lot and the good book warns us about them things