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PHILLIP EVANS

:~x-~ si~vi~ 85 YEARS OLD.


	Philip Evans, his wife, Janie, and their crippled son live together in a two~room frame house with one fireplace. The old w~man has been a wet nurse for many white families in ~innsboro. Neither Philip nor his boy can work. The wife nurses occasionally.

	‚t I was born at de General Bratton Canaan place ‘bout six miles, sort of up a little, on de sunrise side of ~Vinnsboro. I hopes you‘re not corrbrary like, to think it too much against dis old slave when I tells you de day. Jell sir, dat daywas de fust day of April but pray sir,don‘t write me down a fool ‘cause I born on dat p‘ticular April Fool Day, 1852. ~ien I gits through ~~id you, I wants you to say if dat birthday have any bfect ~ dis old mans sen~ sibilit y.

	t, My pappy was naine Dick. Him was bought by General Bratton from de sale

of de ~vans estate. My pappy often tell mammy and us chil].un, dat his pappy w~s ketched in Africa and fetched to America on a big ship in a iron cage, ‘long wid a whole heap of other black folie, and dat he was powerful sick at de stomach de time he was on de ship.

	u My mammy was name Charlott e • Her say her know nothin ‚ ‘bout her daddy or where he come from. 0ne of my brothers is de Reverend Jackson C. Evans, age 72. Richard, another brother, is 65 years old. Al]. of us born on de Cariaan Bratton place. General Bratton love dat place ; so him named it proud, like de I~and of Canaan.