Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
Subtitle: The Wpa Interviews With Former Slaves Living in Indiana
Contributors: Federal Writers Project (Corporate Author); Ronald L. Baker (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780253338037
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Slavery; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Folklore & Mythology; United States - General; History; Indiana; Interviews; Plantation life; Slaves; Social conditions; Sources; Southern States
First sentence: This book is based on a collection of interviews with former slaves who were living in Indiana in the late 1930s.
Description: "The Indiana slave narratives provide a glimpse of slavery from the memories of those who experienced it, preserving insiders' views of an unfortunate chapter in American history. Though the former slaves represented in the Indiana collection lived in Indiana at the time of the interviews, their stories reveal a variety of experiences of African Americans who had been enslaved in eleven 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 the slaves' 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."--BOOK JACKET.