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LE~V!IS EVANS
EX-SLAVE 96 YEARS



	Lewis Evans lives on the lands of the estate of the late C. L. Smith, about ten miles southwest of Winnsboro, S. C. The house is a two«room frame structure ‚ with a chimney in the center • He has the house and garden lot, free of rent, for the rest of his life, by the expressectwish of Mr. Smith before his demise. The only other occupant is ~ Nancy, who is his third wife and much younger than Lewis. She does all the work about the home. They exist from the produce of the garden, output of fowls, arid the 3rilall pension Lewis receives. They raise a pig each year. This gives them their meat for the succeeding year.

	~	‚t ~1ho I b‘lorxg to? Where was I born? White folks tell me I born af-‘ ter de etai‘s fell, (1333), but maybe I too little to ‘member de day. J~8t have to go by what I hear them say. Think it was bot~ 1841. All accounts is, I was born a slave of Marater John Martin, near Jenkinsville. Old Mietress, his wife, named Miss Margaret. All I can ‘member ‘bout them is dis:

They had ‘bout fifteen slaves, me ‘mongst them. His daughter married a doc-‘ tor ‚ Doctor Harrison. I was sold to Maj. William Bell, who lived ‘bout ten or twelve miles from old )~arster. I‘~ a good size boy then. Mai • Bell had ten fernhies when I got dere. Put me to hoein‘ in de field arid dat fall I picked cotton0 ~ year us didn‘t have cotton planters. I was took for one of de ones to plant de cotton seed by drappin‘ de seed in de drill. I had a bag ‘round my neck, fui]. of seeds, from which I‘d take handfuls and sow them ‘long in de row. Us had a horse-gin and screwpit, to git de cotton fit for de market in Charleston. Used four mules to gin de cotton and one mule to pack it