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Ex-Slave
Fanny Roberts, born on Judge Robert's plantation in Pike County just prior to the War Between the States, does not remember any of the happenings of that bloody period.
After freedom, her family moved to Griffin, where she was baptized in the Baptist Church. "You have to tell yo experience before you kin join the church: tell what de Lord done done fer you. Effen you don't, you can't get in the church," she said.
"Aunt" Fanny, as she is now called by both whites and colored, belonged to the Lodge of the Good Samaritans before she became too feeble to attend the meetings.
"The new fangled niggers wear money fer luck," the old woman stated: "I seen a colored gal going down the street the other day with a dime just a showin' on her leg."
"Yes, indeed, I was married with a license and a preacher. Tain't right the way some of them do now. They don't stay single atall; they just leave one husband or wife and take up wid another one. I ain't never heard of a nigger getting a 'vorce; ain't nuthen lak dat wid dem."
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