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The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
T. Lindsay Baker, Julie P. Baker, Photos
University of Oklahoma Press · Hardcover · March 15, 1996
Reading lane: Cultural Heritage Lives
These are fascinating stories of the memories of ex-slaves, fourteen of which have never been published before.
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Book Details
- Authors
- T. Lindsay Baker, Julie P. Baker, Photos
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Published
- March 15, 1996
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Cultural Heritage Lives · U.S. History
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives
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Cultural Heritage Lives
U.S. History
About This Book
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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