For the most part, I was raised in a very small, Cajun country town. In this town everyone knew my name and who my mom, dad, sisters and brothers were. Looking back, I cannot recall seeing or interacting with many African-Americans in school, in the grocery store, or anywhere around town. I can rem...
MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. I asked her questions about my grandmother, as I never saw any of my grandparents. My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. They owned a lot of slaves. After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he and Uncle Ashley Rhodes, my grandmothers' brother, went to Arkansas and homesteaded some land. ...
