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.	“17 father‘s easter ~ had1 ~ around a hun dred Slaves. Dou.gia.s ~ a richer

man than my father‘s master. ~ I suspect he ha4 ~ two h~mdred slaves. •• ~ was my mo ther ‚ s father as wel 1 as her mas ter • I bio w hIm. He used to come t o our• hoi~ae and he would give ~ma anything she wanted. He liked her. She was hi e d~ ghtsr .

	“My father ‚ a fat her-‘ I can ‚ t remember what his name was • I know hIe mother was Candace • I never iid see his father but I saw my grwidma. He was ~eth be fore I was born. ~ th‘ s ‚ mo ti~ r was n~ ed blinda Evans.

Only one t hing I re menbe r . that was ren~rkable abou.t her. Her husband wae a free man ziam~ Mike Evans • He ~ o orne from up North and marrI e~ he r In slave time ant he bought her. He was a fine carpenter. Th~ uiàd to hire him ou.t t o build houe es • He • was a contractor in s lave t line • ~ remember hi~ weU•

	“After . the War ‚ he used to bave Whit e men getting traIning for the

oarp€riter ‚ e traIning under him. He was Grandma Evans ‚ Imeband. tie waan ‘t

sty father‘s father. My father was born before Grandma Evans was freed.
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All th e r es t of t ~m wer e bo ru afterward. ~ q so Id ber to him but the

children all belonged to the Dou~lasses. lis prebably p~d for hr * ti~ and thq kept the Ohiidren that was born. . .

	~	“The doctor was good. to my father. Way after freedom, he was our family doctor. He was at my father ‘s bedside when father died. He‘s dead. now.

	“M1y fatla r was a carpenter and a wait m~i (waltr J . He was a fini ah ~ carpenter • He used t o mak e ever ythlng ‚ round the house • Somet Jase he went off ~id worked and~ ~*ould bring the money back to his master, aid his master
would give hiii some fOr himself.	~
   “My aothsr worked ‘rot‘~nd the house. she was a servant.	I don‘t know

that she ever did the wørk in the fIe].~. My daddy just come hom every