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FEDERAL ~RIT~RS‘ PROJECT
		American Guide,(Negro IV~ters‘ Unit)
	.	      Jacksonville, Florida
	Viola B. Muas			Slafe Interv1~w
	Field~Worker		~	Decen~bex 3, 1936
	Coniplete
	1,888 Words	~	~
	8 Pages

“Father“ Charles Coatee


	Father Charles Coates, aa he j s call ed by all who know hirn, was born a slave, 108 years ago at Ricbmond, Virginia, on the plantation of a man named L1Angle. His early boyhood days was apent on the L‘Angle plaôe filled. with duties euch a~ minding hogs, cows, bringing in wood. and euch light work. Hie ~rearing apparel consisted of one garment, a shirt made to i‘each belowtlie knees and with threequarter a~leeves. He wore no 8hoes until he was a man past 20 years of agee

	Th~ single garment was worn suznmer and winter alike and the change in the weather did. not cause an extra aniount

	of clothes to be furnished for the slaves. They were required t~ n.~ovc about so fast at work that the heat from the body was

	~U.fficient to keep them warm.

	When Charles was still a young man Mr. L‘Angle sold iiir~ oj~ time payment to WB.~ Hall; who several years before the

Civil ‘;TTar moved from Ricbmond to Washington County, Georgia, Cara: ~ ing 135 grown slaves and many children. Mr • Hall made Cç~arjee his carriage driver, which kept him from hard labor, 0~er slaves on the plantation performed such dUties as rail