Free Gut was an important area for all the enslaved people in both Christiansted and in Frederiksted. They lived in 30x30 homes for each family. When slavery was in effect, the enslaved mothers would make alot of children & live in a small home. The Danish people refuse to live near guts because of insects that would live in that area. The enslaved people would use the gut as an advantage. They use to fish, talk melee, and receive water. We were trying to get genip from the tree and we were successful. The blue house was Melvin Evans house and he was the first elected governor and last appointed governor of the Virgin Islands. Melvin Evans house was by the American Hill area. American Hill is an area in Christiansted near Free Gut, where you would find few enslaved people because the people who lived on that hill was wealthy and was from America.
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