Slave Narratives: Black Indians

Oklahoma Slave Narratives Index


Oklahoma's Writers Project and Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma ( 1937- 1938): Copies of original transcripts can be obtained from: Oklahoma Historical Society, 2100 N. Lincoln Blvd. OKC, OK 73105

                            
Freedmen Slave Narrative                 Denied Freedmen

To the Readers: You may find some terms or phrases that you find offensive. The narratives have been transcribed as written, although they contain statements that may not be politically correct for the year 2000, they were terms used in the early 1900 (and even today) by all races.I am proud to say I am a Freedmen descendant, therefore to change their words would be a disservice to them, myself and to those who seek the truth.

Transcribed by Eleanor Wyatt : The narratives speaks to being freed after the civil war, but I must say that as a Freedmen descendant, the spirit that drives me to search, is a spirit of freedom, A freedom inherited from my ancestors. Thus I choose to believe that my ancestor's bodies may have been held in bondage, but they retained their freedom of mind

Adams, Isaac

Alexander, Alice

Anderson, Sam

Banks, Frances


Banks, Phoebe

Banks, Sina

Barber, Mollie

Barner, L. B.


Battiest, Jane

 
Bean, Joe

 
Nancy Rogers Bean

 Bee, Prince

 Bell, Eliza

 Bethel, William L.

 
Blocker, Irene

 Bonner, Lewis

 Bridges, Francis

 
Brown, Charley Moore

 Brown, John

 Burns, Robert

 
Burton, Daniel Webster

 
Butler, Ed

 
Campbell, Jack

 Carder, Sallie

 Chessier, Betty Foremen

 Claridy, George Washington

 
Clay, Henry

 
Colbert, Polly

 
Cole, Jefferson L.

 Conrad, George Jr.

 Curtis, William

 
Davis, Lucinda

 Dawson, Anthony

 Douglass, Alice

 Dowdy, Doc Daniel

 
Draper, Joanna

 Easter, Esther

 Evans, Eliza

 Farmer, Lizzie

 Fountain, Della

 
Franklin, Buck Colbert

 
Franklin, Richard

 Gardner, Nancy

 George, Octivia

 
Grayson, Mary

 
Grinstead, Robert R.

 Hardman, Mattie

 
Hardrick, Eliza

 Harmon, George W

 Creek Nation History
Harrison, John

 
Harshaw, Plomer

 Hawkins, Annie

 Hemmett, London Law

 
Henderson, Henry

 Henry, Ida

 Hillyar, Morris

 Hutson, Hal

 Hutson, William

 Jackson, Frank

 
Jackson, Lizzie

 
Jenkins, Lewis

 Johnson, Nellie

 Jordan, Josie

 Jordan, Sam

 King, Martha

 
Kye, George

 
Lindsay, Mary

 Logan, Mattie

 
Lonian, Moses

 
Love, Kiziah

 Lucas, Daniel William

 Luster, Bert

 Mack, Marshall

 Manning, Allen

 
Maynard, Bob

 
McCray, Stephen

 McFarland, Hannah

 
McNair, Chaney

 Mercer, Rose

 Montgomery, Jane

 
Nave, Cornelius Neely

 Oliver, Amanda

 Oliver, Salomon

 Perry, Noah

 
Perryman, Patsy

 
Petite, Phyllis

 Pinkard, Maggie

 
Poe, Matilda

 
Pryor, Elsie

 Pyles, Henry F.

 
Richardson, Chaney

 Richardson, Red

 
Robertson, Betty

 
Robinson, Harriett

 Rowe, Hatie

 Samuel, C. G

 Scott, Annie Groves

 
Sheppard, Morris

 Simms, Andrew

 Smith, Alfred

 Smith, Liza

 
Smith, Lou

 Smith, Moses

 
Smith, R. C.

 Southall, James

 
Starr, Milton

 Stennett, J. W

 Strayhorn, Eva

 
Thompson, Johnson

 
Thompson, Ned

 
Thompson, Victoria Taylor

 
Threat, Jim

 
Vann, Lucinda

 
Wagoner, Sweetie Ivery

 Watson, William

 Webb, Mary Frances

 Wells, Easter

 White, John

 
Whitmire, Eliza

 Williams, Charley

 Williams, Hula

 Williams, Robert

 Willis, Charles

 
Wilson, Sarah

 Wofford, Acemey

 Wood, Tom

 Young, Annie

  Indian Pioneer Papers Index

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