{"product_id":"homeless-friendless-and-penniless","title":"Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomeless, Friendless, and Penniless\u003cbr\u003e\nThe WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana\u003cbr\u003e\nRonald L. Baker\u003cbr\u003e\nLives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\nBased 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nRonald 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nContents\u003cbr\u003e\nPart One: A Folk History of Slavery\u003cbr\u003e\nBackground of the WPA Interviews\u003cbr\u003e\nPresentation of Material\u003cbr\u003e\nLiving and Working on the Plantation\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Treatment of Slaves\u003cbr\u003e\nEscaping from Slavery\u003cbr\u003e\nEducation\u003cbr\u003e\nReligion\u003cbr\u003e\nFolklore\u003cbr\u003e\nRecollections of the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e\nLiving and Working after the Civil War\u003cbr\u003e\nValue of the WPA Interviews\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\nPart Two: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves [134 entries]\u003cbr\u003e\nAppendices, including Thematic Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Ronald L. Baker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615992439164,"sku":"9780253338037","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253338037_67f260b7-b3c3-429d-b65f-b1db58acff36.jpg?v=1726136771","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/homeless-friendless-and-penniless","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}