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	~1Yes, ~ seen many e. slave in my day. One of my boy playmates was a slave child. His name is Saza Roßan and he lives now at the County Po~ ~ax~n.

I make it a point no~ to dwell too much o~i ~1~ve tixx~es.I was learned different. I‘ve h~d co~isiderabie schoolin‘,went to my first scho~l in the old ~c*irst

~	presbyterian church.My teachers was white folks from tue Nor~h. They give us our education and cive us clothes and ttuin~s sent down here froi~i the North. That was just after the surrender. I did see a terr~b~e sight once. A slave
;	with chains on him as 1on~as from here to the street.He was in an ~ buggy,

-	settin‘ between two white men anci tney was pas~n‘ through Knoxville. My mother ana father rouldnt lissen‘ to me tell‘ ernabout it, when I got home. And I hope
	~ I forget everythin& I ever knowed or heard about salves, and. slave ti~ues.~
:	Joseph Leonidas ~tar, no loi~ger works at tne shoeznakera trade .H~ 	~
~	writes~$~~poetry-and 1ives~ leisurely in a. three room fraxae ~ shanty,i~n a	~
.:	~ row of shab~ierones that face each other disco~so1ate1y on a ty~ical~egro

~ . . . alleyway, that has no shade trees and no pa~Ing . 11Lee ‚ s“ house I s ti~e only -
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~	ône that does not w&bble iizieasily,flush with the-mudd~r . alley. His stands on a small brick foundation,a few feet behind a privet~ ~k~xx hedge in front,

with a brick wall along the side in whicn he zias cemented a fe‘s huge co~cii

~	S shells.

L.	• After fifty-fouryears residence here, a political boss in his ward,


and the only Negro member o f the Young ~hi te Men ‚ s Republ ican League ‚ S tar ‚ s

influence in his coznm‘~mity is attested by the fact that when he “destructed~,

S t~e• knoxville City council to “Dlease do somethin‘ about it,Knoxville being

~: ~ too big•. a city to keep cal‘lin‘ street‘s alleys,the ~1ty .‘~‘ouncil prcmptly and


iiuan1rnoi~l y voted to c hange the naine of ~in~ ~ s ~ ~ J. ey to 4uebec ~

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