Slave Narratives, Oklahoma

Slave Narratives, Oklahoma, by Various

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Title: Slave Narratives, Oklahoma A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Author: Various
Release Date: March 8, 2007 [EBook #20785]
Language: English
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SLAVE NARRATIVES
A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Illustrated with Photographs
WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME XIII
OKLAHOMA NARRATIVES
Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Oklahoma

INFORMANTS
Adams, Isaac 1 Alexander, Alice 6
Banks, Phoebe 8 Bean, Nancy Rogers 12 Bee, Prince 14 Bonner, Lewis 17 Bridges, Francis 20 Brown, John 24
Carder, Sallie 27 Chessier, Betty Foreman 30 Colbert, Polly 33 Conrad, Jr., George 39 Cunningham, Martha 45 Curtis, William 48
Davis, Lucinda 53 Dawson, Anthony 65 Douglass, Alice 73 Dowdy, Doc Daniel 76 Draper, Joanna 81
Easter, Esther 88 Evans, Eliza 92
Farmer, Lizzie 97 Fountain, Della 102
Gardner, Nancy 108 George, Octavia 111 Grayson, Mary 115
Grinstead, Robert R. 124
Hardman, Mattie 128 Hawkins, Annie 131 Henry, Ida 134 Hillyer, Morris 138 Hutson, Hal 145 Hutson, William 148
Jackson, Isabella 152 Johnson, Nellie 155 Jordan, Josie 160
King, George G. 165 King, Martha 169 Kye, George 172
Lawson, Ben 176 Lindsay, Mary 178 Logan, Mattie 187 Love, Kiziah 192 Lucas, Daniel William 200 Luster, Bert 203
McCray, Stephen 207 McFarland, Hannah 210 Mack, Marshall 212 Manning, Allen B. 215 Maynard, Bob 223 Montgomery, Jane 227
Oliver, Amanda 230 Oliver, Salomon 233
Petite, Phyllis 236 Poe, Matilda 242 Pyles, Henry F. 245
Richardson, Chaney 257 Richardson, Red 263 Robertson, Betty 266 Robinson, Harriett 270 Rowe, Katie 275
Sheppard, Morris 285 Simms, Andrew 295 Smith, Liza 298 Smith, Lou 300 Southall, James 306
Tenneyson, Beauregard 310
Walters, William 312 Webb, Mary Frances 314 Wells, Easter 316 White, John 322 Williams, Charley 330 Wilson, Sarah 344 Woods, Tom 354
Young, Annie 359

ILLUSTRATIONS
Facing Page
Lucinda Davis 53
Anthony Dawson 65
Katie Rowe 275
Charley Williams and Granddaughter 330

Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves
ISAAC ADAMS Age 87 yrs. Tulsa, Okla.
I was born in Louisiana, way before the War. I think it was about ten years before, because I can remember everything so well about the start of the War, and I believe I was about ten years old.
My Mammy belonged to Mr. Sack P. Gee. I don't know what his real given name was, but it maybe was Saxon. Anyways we all called him Master Sack.
He was a kind of youngish man, and was mighty rich. I think he was born in England. Anyway his pappy was from England, and I think he went back before I was born.
Master Sack had a big plantation ten miles north of Arcadia, Louisiana, and his land run ten miles along both sides. He would leave in a buggy and be gone all day and still not get all over it.
There was all kinds of land on it, and he raised cane and oats and wheat and lots of corn and cotton. His cotton fields was the biggest anywheres in that part, and when chopping and picking times come he would get negroes from other people to help out. I never was no good at picking, but I was a terror with a hoe!
I was the only child my Mammy had. She was just a young girl, and my Master did not own her very long. He got her from Mr. Addison Hilliard, where my pappy belonged. I think she was going to have me when he got her; anyways I come along pretty soon, and my mammy never was very well afterwards. Maybe Master Sack sent her back over to my pappy. I don't know.
Mammy was the house girl at Mr. Sack's because she wasn't very strong, and when I was four or five years old she died. I was big enough to do little things for Mr. Sack and his daughter, so they kept me at the mansion, and I helped the house boys. Time I was nine or ten Mr. Sack's daughter was getting to be a young woman--fifteen or sixteen years old--and that was old enough to get married