No Longer A Slave

“So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.” – Galatians 4:7

Elizabeth Cash Green was born on June 2, 1862 in Midland, Georgia. She was the last survivor of slavery in America. She died on February 20, 1975 at the age of 112 in DeKalb County, Arkansas.

She was born a slave three years before the end of the Civil War. In 1882, she moved to Arkansas.
Green’s life spanned a broad spectrum of American history including Slavery, Reconstruction, World War I and World War2, Korean War, Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and Watergate.

During her lifetime, Green was married twice and had three children. After moving to Helena, she joined the Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church where she was active until her death, serving on the Mission Board for many years.

“She lived a very active life in the community and was respected by everyone. She was well over a hundred years old, still doing her own cooking and house cleaning,”

Amos King, her great grandson said. “…She told me that there are two things I should never forget; never take anything that don’t belong to me and if the Lord is for you, then who can be against you?”

We were all once slaves to sin, but now freed by our Heavenly Father who has adopted us as His son.

Praise the Lord that though we were formerly slaves, now we are both sons and heirs.

“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will” – Ephesians 1:4-5