JHS Folder 12: Slavery

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…

Notes that Muse made during her interview with Irene Coates, aged 76, a long-time resident of Jacksonville, Florida. The interview was conducted on December 3, 1936, at the home of Irene and her husband Charles, also interviewed by Muse on that same…

Notes from the interview that informed Muse's writing of the Rebecca Fulton Narrative. The pages of these notes are unnumbered and have been assembled in their approximate order, based in part on the way the information is presented in the…

A list of activities and entertainments in Jacksonville. These notes possibly reflect information provided by Irene Coates, as the Irene Coates Interview Notes mention of three of the places mentioned here: the Knights of Pythias Hall, the Masonic…

A list of dances accompanied by an address for Clara Royster

Mathematical calculations related to the Charles Coates Interview Notes and Irene Coates Interview Notes. Because these calculations do not occur within the flow of either set of notes, and because they relate to both, we have present them here as a…

Notes from Muse's interview with Lindsay Moore, a Jacksonville resident who was formerly enslaved in Georgia