The WPA Oklahoma Slave NarrativesT. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker 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. |
Contents
John Field | 155 |
Octavia George | 169 |
Mattie Hardman | 183 |
Henry Henderson | 196 |
William Hutson | 211 |
Nellie Johnson | 227 |
Martha King | 241 |
Kiziah Love | 262 |
Phyllis Petite | 320 |
Henry F Pyles | 336 |
Chaney Richardson | 351 |
Katie Rowe | 364 |
Andrew Simms | 382 |
Mose Smith | 395 |
James Southall | 408 |
Victoria Taylor Thompson | 424 |
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