Ralph Ellison said that: "many of the descendents of freed slaves ... considered it a territory of hope, and a place where they could create their own opportunities ... {F}or Negroes it had a traditional association with freedom which had entered their folklore." Moreover, Oklahoma "lacked the intensities of custom, tradition and manners which 'colored' the institutions of the Old South." In
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