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The version of the Charles Coates narrative published in Works Progress Administration Federal Writers’ Project, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, vol. 3, Library of Congress, 1941,…

A narrative based on the Charles Coates Interview Notes. The word Copy is handwritten diagonally across the entire first page. See also the related Incomplete Page 4 of Charles Coates Narrative (1 of 2).

Notes that Viola Muse made during her interview with Charles Coates, aged 108, a long-time resident of Jacksonville, Florida.The interview was conducted on December 3, 1936, at the home of Coates and his wife Irene, also interviewed by Muse on that…