Lindy
Patton
Born in Knoxville, Greene, Alabama, United States
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
in Greene County, Alabama, United States
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Biography
Lindy Patton is a part of US Black heritage.
Lindy Patton was interviewed in Greene County, Alabama, Poor House, near Eutaw, on 6/10/1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.
"I was born in 1841 an' it's taken me fifty years to git to de po' house. Now I is got jus' fo' mo' years to make it an even fifty dat I been dere."
"I was born in Knoxville, Alabama, in Greene County, an' I belonged to Massa Bill Patton."
"I ain't never ma'ied, an' I ain't never goin' to."
Interview: Lindy Patton was interviewed in Greene County, Alabama by Alice S Barton as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. [1]
Sources
- ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Lindy Patton - Vol. 1, Alabama, page 311, image 317 of 442.
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