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- catalog abstract """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." "Yet 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." "The 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." "This 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.""--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Oklahoma slave narratives".
- catalog contributor b9351668.
- catalog contributor b9351669.
- catalog contributor b9351670.
- catalog coverage "Oklahoma Biography.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description """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." "Yet 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." "The 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." "This 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.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-518) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 543 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0806127929 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0806128593 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Oklahoma Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Oklahoma".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog subject "305.5/67/092273 B 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Oklahoma History Sources.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Oklahoma Interviews.".
- catalog subject "E444 .W82 1996".
- catalog subject "Slaves Southern States Biography.".
- catalog title "Oklahoma slave narratives".
- catalog title "The WPA Oklahoma slave narratives / edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".