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  1. Abner Jordan Shares His Life as a Slave
    date March, 1930 to 1930map Durham, North Carolinatags Slavery, plantation, Slave Living Conditions, Runaway Slaves, Slave Life

    Abner Jordan was interviewed by a member of the Work Projects Administration for a Federal Writer’ Project that was documenting North Carolina slave narratives. Jordan has never left North Carolina since he was born there and agreed to the interview despite being the old age of 95. He discussed his birth with hesitance, claiming that he was “bawn about 1832 in Staggsville, Marse Cameron’s place”....