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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" |
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.