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245 04 $aThe WPA Oklahoma slave narratives /$cedited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker.
246 30 $aOklahoma slave narratives
260 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$c1996.
263 $a9601
300 $axvi, 543 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [507]-518) and index.
520 $a"I never talk to nobody 'bout this" was the response of one aged African American when asked by a Works Project Administration field worker to share memories of his life in slavery and after emancipation. He and other ex-slaves were uncomfortable with the memories of a time when black and white lives were interwoven through human bondage.
520 8 $aYet the WPA field workers overcame the old people's reticence, and American West scholars T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker have collected all the known WPA Oklahoma "slave narratives" in this volume for the first time - including fourteen never published before. Their careful editorial notes detail what is known about the interviewers and the process of preparing the narratives.
520 8 $aThe interviews were made in the late 1930s in Oklahoma. Although many African Americans had relocated there after emancipation in 1865, some interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian Territory. Their narratives constitute important primary sources on the foodways, agricultural practices, and home life of Oklahoma Indians.
520 8 $aThis definitive, indexed edition will be an important resource for Oklahoma and Southwest historians as well as those interested in the history of African Americans, slavery, and Oklahoma's Five Tribes. For those studying the generation of African American men and women who over a century ago initiated black life in Oklahoma, the slave narratives are a major source of "collective memory."
650 0 $aSlaves$zSouthern States$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zOklahoma$vInterviews.
651 0 $aOklahoma$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116435
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zOklahoma$xHistory$vSources.
700 1 $aBaker, T. Lindsay.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83066174
700 1 $aBaker, Julie P.$q(Julie Philips),$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95034086
710 1 $aUnited States.$bWork Projects Administration.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046793
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