{"product_id":"homeless-friendless-and-penniless-the-wpa-interviews-with-former-slaves-living-in-indiana-9780253338037","title":"Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The Wpa Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomeless, Friendless, and Penniless\u003cbr\u003eThe WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana\u003cbr\u003eRonald L. Baker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is an invaluable record of the lives and thoughts of former slaves who moved to Indiana after the Civil War and made significant contributions to the evolving patchwork of Hoosier culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Indiana slave narratives provide a glimpse of slavery as remembered by those who experienced it, preserving insiders' views of a tragic chapter in American history. Though they were living in Indiana at the time of the interviews, these African Americans been enslaved in 11 different states from the Carolinas to Louisiana. The interviews deal with life and work on the plantation; the treatment of slaves; escaping from slavery; education, religion, and slave folklore; and recollections of the Civil War. Just as important, the interviews reveal how former slaves fared in Indiana after the Civil War and during the Depression. Some became ministers, a few became educators, and one became a physician; but many lived in poverty and survived on Christian faith and small government pensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonald L. Baker, Chairperson and Professor of English at Indiana State University, is author of many books, including Hoosier Folk Legends and From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (both from Indiana University Press. He is co-author of Indiana Place Names with Marvin Carmony and editor of The Folklore Historian, the journal of the Folklore and History Section of the American Folklore Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003ePart One: A Folk History of Slavery\u003cbr\u003e Background of the WPA Interviews\u003cbr\u003e Presentation of Material\u003cbr\u003e Living and Working on the Plantation\u003cbr\u003e The Treatment of Slaves\u003cbr\u003e Escaping from Slavery\u003cbr\u003e Education\u003cbr\u003e Religion\u003cbr\u003e Folklore\u003cbr\u003e Recollections of the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e Living and Working after the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e Value of the WPA Interviews\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves [134 entries]\u003cbr\u003eAppendices, including Thematic Index\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald L. Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.54h x 6.44w x 1.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253338037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2001 pg. 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2001 pg. 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonald L. Baker, Chairperson and Professor of English at Indiana State University, is the author of Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson, Hoosier Folk Legends, Jokelore: Humorous Folktales from Indiana, French Folklife in Old Vincennes, From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History, and numerous articles in folklore journals. He is co-author of Indiana Place Names and editor of The Folklore Historian, journal of the Folklore and History Section of the American Folklore Society, and a monograph, The Study of Place Names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40435103170675,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":40.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7001d2f8-8b3f-4e5d-9937-36f81669ea7a.jpg?v=1663076965","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/homeless-friendless-and-penniless-the-wpa-interviews-with-former-slaves-living-in-indiana-9780253338037","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}