The WPA Oklahoma Slave NarrativesT. 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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... 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 Alice Douglass 125 Doc Daniel Dowdy 128 Joanna Draper 132 Esther Easter 138 Eliza ...
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Contents
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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