Slave Interview ~ ~	.	Page 6	•
Viola B. Muse		FEC	!~	7()
Jacksonville, Florida


offered for sale, his xnaatez‘ wanted so~ much for him, and~re..~ fueing to sell him on time payments, he was always left on hie master‘s hands. His n~aster said. “being tall, healthy and. robust, he was well worth much money.~

	After slavery, Char 3es was rated as a good. worker. He at onoe began working and saving his money and in a short time he had accumulated “around $200.“

	.	The first sight of a certain young woman caused him to fal]. in love. He says the love was mututal and after a oourtsh~ of three weeks they were married. The girl‘s mother told. Charles that she had always been~ .very fra~ll, .bU~ he did. not know that she had oons~unption. Within three deys after they were married she died and. her death caused much grie(for Charles.

	~	He was reluctant to bury her and wanted to continue to stand and louk at x~er fao•. A white doctor and a school teacher whoae.names he does not remember, told him to put his wife‘s body in alcohol t~ preserve it and he could look at lt all theO time. At that time white people w~o had plenty of mpney and. wanted to see the faces of their deceased used this method.

	A glass casket was used and the dressed body of the deceased was placed in alcohol inside the casket. Another casket made of wood held the glass casket and the whole was placed in a vault made of stone or brick. The walls of the vault were left about four feet above the ground and a window and ledge were