The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

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T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 - 543 pages

These are fascinating stories of the memories of ex-slaves, fourteen of which have never been published before. Although many African Americans had relocated in Oklahoma after emancipation in1865, some of the interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian territory.

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... John Brown Robert H. Burns Sallie Carder 63 66 69 71 Betty Foreman Chessier George Washington Claridy 73 76 Henry Clay Polly Colbert George Conrad , Jr. William Curtis 79 86 91 96 Carrie E. Davis 99 Lucinda Davis 107 Anthony Dawson 118 ...
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T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker. John Field Della Fountain Nancy Gardner Millie Garnes Octavia George Nannie Gordon 155 156 160 162 166 169 Mary Grayson 171 Sonny Greer 178 Robert R. Grinstead 180 Mattie Hardman 183 George W ...
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John Field
155
Octavia George
169
Mattie Hardman
183
Henry Henderson
196
William Hutson
211
Nellie Johnson
227
Martha King
241
Mattie Logan
257
Amanda Oliver
305
Phyllis Petite
320
Martha Ann Ratliff
338
Chaney Richardson
351
Katie Rowe
364
Morris Sheppard
382
Mose Smith
395
Milton Starr
408

Stephen McCray
270
Manning
285
Jane Montgomery
290
Victoria Taylor Thompson
422
Lucinda Vann
435
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T. Lindsay Baker,Julie Philips Baker
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About the author (1996)

T. Lindsay Baker, who holds the W. K. Gordon Chair in Industrial History at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, is Director of the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History, Thurber, Texas, and editor of the Windmiller's Gazette. He is the author of A Field Guide to American Windmills and North American Windmill Manufacturers' Trade Literature: A Descriptive Guide.

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PealkiriThe WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
EditorsT. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker
ContributorUnited States. Work Projects Administration
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1996
ISBN0806127929, 9780806127927
Length543 pages
  
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