By T. Lindsay Baker, Julie P. Baker, Photos, United States Work Projects Administration
Those are interesting tales of the stories of ex-slaves, fourteen of that have by no means been released sooner than. even if many African american citizens had relocated in Oklahoma after emancipation in1865, the various interviewees have been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks within the Indian territory.
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There is a substantial literature on the role of African Americans in the Five Tribes. Among the works of scholarship on the subject are the following: Annie Heloise Abel, The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy; J. B. Davis, "Slavery in the Cherokee Nation," Chronicles of Oklahoma 11 (December 1933): 105672; Janet Halliburton, "Black Slavery in the Creek Nation," Chronicles of Oklahoma 56 (Fall 1978): 298314; R.
Although in actual practice standardized dialect was not used in all the narratives, project personnel received guidelines on how to present speech in a uniform manner for the sake of literary consistency. 12 The actual texts constituting the Oklahoma slave narratives vary considerably. The most typical collection of materials from an interviewee consists of a preliminary or intermediate draft coupled with a final draft edited in the standard format requested from Washington headquarters, all prepared on 8 1/2- by 11-inch typing paper.
For examples employing Oklahoma narratives, see Daniel F. Littlefield's multiple studies of African Americans among the Five Tribes, cited above, as well as Paul D. Escott, Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives; and John C. Neilson, "Indian Masters, Black Slaves: An Oral History of the Civil War in Oklahoma," Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 65 (1992): 4254. 21. Halliburton, Red over Black, 14580; Kaye M. Teall, Black History in Oklahoma: A Resource Book, 3237. 22.