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The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives PDF Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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"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.