Mama Fannie

Mama Fannie Was Found In A Sugarcane Field In Central Louisiana By Slave Women Who Came Out To Work One Early Fall Morning In 1853. She Was About Two And A Half Years Old With No Shoes Or Coat On. She Was Very Tiny White And Beautiful. Her Fourteen-Year-Old Pregnant Slave Mother Arrived On A Ship In New Orleans And Was Sold Immediately To A Plantation Owner In Avoyelles Parish Louisiana. Martha Attempted To Save Her Child From The Hurt And Shame She Was Experiencing By Leaving Her In The Field For A Surrogate Mother To Raise. Mama Fannie Grew Up To Be A Christian Woman Of Character Raised Her Many Biracial Children In A Loving Manner And Was Allowed To Marry Three Of The Fathers Of Her Many Children And Became The Root Of Her Family-The Griffins.