Read Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

Ronald L. Baker

4.9/5 (28421 ratings)

Description:Homeless, Friendless, and PennilessThe WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in IndianaRonald L. BakerLives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.Based 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.The 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.Ronald 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.ContentsPart One: A Folk History of Slavery Background of the WPA Interviews Presentation of Material Living and Working on the Plantation The Treatment of Slaves Escaping from Slavery Education Religion Folklore RecollWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana. To get started finding Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0253028574

Description: Homeless, Friendless, and PennilessThe WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in IndianaRonald L. BakerLives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.Based 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.The 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.Ronald 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.ContentsPart One: A Folk History of Slavery Background of the WPA Interviews Presentation of Material Living and Working on the Plantation The Treatment of Slaves Escaping from Slavery Education Religion Folklore RecollWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana. To get started finding Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless: The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

More Books

Hoosier Folk Legends (Midland Book)

Hoosier Folk Legends (Midland Book)

Indiana place names

Indiana place names

From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (Indiana)

From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (Indiana)

Indiana Place Names by Ronald L. Baker (1978-07-03)

Indiana Place Names by Ronald L. Baker (1978-07-03)

Jokelore: Humorous Folktales from Indiana (Midland Book)

Jokelore: Humorous Folktales from Indiana (Midland Book)

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities)

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities)

Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson

Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson

Steam generator sludge deposition in recirculating and once through steam generator upper tube bundle and support plates: Presented at the 1992 ... Atlanta, Georgia, October 18-22, 1992

Steam generator sludge deposition in recirculating and once through steam generator upper tube bundle and support plates: Presented at the 1992 ... Atlanta, Georgia, October 18-22, 1992

Jesse Stuart & The Hoosier Schoolmasters

Jesse Stuart & The Hoosier Schoolmasters