Oklahoma Slave Narratives Database
Federal Writers' Project  ·  Works Progress Administration  ·  1936–1938

Oklahoma Slave Narratives Database

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIII, Oklahoma Narratives

Source: Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration  ·  Volume: XIII, Oklahoma Narratives  ·  Collected: 1936–1938  ·  Published: Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 1941
75
Total Narratives
12
Creek Nation
11
Cherokee Nation
4
Choctaw Nation
3
Chickasaw / Seminole

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About This Database

This database contains the complete, unabridged text of all 75 oral histories preserved in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIII, Oklahoma Narratives, collected by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration between 1936 and 1938 and published by the Library of Congress in 1941.

Narrators include formerly enslaved people who were held by members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations — the Five Civilized Tribes — as well as individuals enslaved by white planters in Southern states who later settled in Oklahoma Territory. Twenty-eight of the 75 informants were enslaved in what is now Oklahoma, many as the property of American Indians, some never speaking English until long after the Civil War.

Oklahoma Slave Narratives Database  ·  Volume XIII, Federal Writers' Project, 1936–1938  ·  Library of Congress, 1941