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N.C. District:No. 11
Worker:Mrs. W. N. Harriss
No. Words:658
Subject:John Evans
Born in Slavery
Editor:Mrs. W. N. Harriss
Date Stamp:"SEP—1937"

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Interviewed
John Evans on the street and in this Office. Residence changes frequently.

Story of John Evans Born in Slavery.

I was born August 15th, 1859. I am 78 years old. Dat comes out right, don't it? My mother's name was Hattie Newbury. I don't never remember seein' my Pa. We lived on Middle Sound an' dat's where I was born. I knows de room, 'twas upstairs, an' when I knowed it, underneath, downstairs dat is, was bags of seed an' horse feed, harness an' things, but it was slave quarters when I come heah.