{"id":2427,"date":"2014-08-21T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2014-08-21T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T01:54:56","slug":"steven-abram-brings-strawberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/steven-abram-brings-strawberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Abram Brings Strawberries (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steven ABRAM<\/strong> (colored) brought to our office on Saturday last a sample of strawberries raised by him, on his farm, near town; they were the finest we have seen for quite a while. \u00a0Steven says: &#8220;The niggers can hunt for other parts but he is satisfied to stay in Eastern North Carolina, the garden spot of the world, where crops can be produced every month of the year, and the black \u00a0man has a showing.&#8221; \u00a0Steven is correct, and if all his race was like him this country would be much more prosperous.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 February 1890.\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #333333;\">Available online at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #a4a4a4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven ABRAM (colored) brought to our office on Saturday last a sample of strawberries raised by him, on his farm, near town; they were the finest we have seen for quite a while. \u00a0Steven says: &#8220;The niggers can hunt for other parts but he is satisfied to stay in Eastern North Carolina, the garden spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1025,77],"tags":[2218],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-abram-steven"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-D9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}