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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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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