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.]

MARY WALLACE BOWE

Ex-slave 81 years