Very few of the Negroes ever get anywhere; they never have no education. I knew one Negro who got to be a policeman in Salisbury once and he was a good one too. When my next birthday comes in December I will be eighty-eight years old. That is if the Lord lets me live and I shore hope He does.
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| N.C. District: | No. 3 |
| Worker: | Travis Jordan |
| No. Words: | 1384 |
| Subject: | Mary Wallace Bowe |
| Ex-slave 81 Years | |
| Durham County Home | |
| Durham, N.C. |
Lovely story about Abraham Lincoln
[TR: This interview was heavily corrected by hand. i.e. wuz to was, er to a, etc. Changes made without comment.]