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A Talladega Man's Memory of the Baptist College

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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 26, 1881

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 20

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A Talladega Man's Memory of the Baptist College

AMBROSE HEDDEN, a colored man of high standing in Talladega, and universally respected by the better class of citizens, told me a very interesting incident about the Baptist College in Talladega. “I sawed,” he said, “the first plank and knocked off the first shaving for the white Baptist College in 1852. I was a slave then, and I put $900 worth of work on the building—my master’s donation to the college. Many a time when I was busy there, I used to wonder what I and my people had done that we could not be educated also. The Lord was better to me than I trusted. I lived to see my sons and daughters, every one of them, graduate from its halls.”