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 | 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 |
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