The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

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T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 - Social Science - 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.

 

Contents

John Field
155
Octavia George
169
Mattie Hardman
185
Morris Hillyer
200
Frank Jackson
213
Nellie Johnson
227
Martha King
241
Kiziah Love
262
Amanda Oliver
305
Phyllis Petite
320
Martha Ann Ratliff
338
Chaney Richardson
351
Katie Rowe
364
Andrew Simms
384
James Southall
405
Beauregard Tenneyson
419

Marshall Mack
276
Jane Montgomery
290
Lucinda Vann
435
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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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