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FEDEBAL WRITERS‘ PROJECT
	Amer loan Guide ‚ (Negro Wr I t er ‘ Un t t )	74
‘jaokaoriville ‚ Florida
Viola B. Mu9e	Slave Interview
Field Worker	Deoember 16, 1936
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	Immediately after slavery in the United States, the southern white people found themselves without servants. Women who werl accustomed to having a nurse, maid, cook and laundreas sound themselves without auffio lent money to pay wages to all theae. There waa a great amount of work to de done and the great problem confronting married women who had not been taught to work and who thought it beneath their etanding to soil their hands, found it very diffioùlt. •

	~	There were on the other hand many Negro women who needed work and. young girls who needed guidance and tr~.in~.ng~.

	~	The horns ana guiaaxice or tfle aristooratio white people offered the best opportunity for the dependent un—sohooled freed women; and it was in this kind of home thatthe ex—slave child of this story was reared.

	Irene Coates oZ 2015 Wind.le Street, Jacksonville, Florida, was born in Georgia about 1859. She was close to six years o.f a~e when freedom was declared,

	She was one among the many Negro children who had the advantage of living under the direct supervision o~ kind whiteß