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Follow the Drinking Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 50
Authors: Jeanette Winter
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-15 - Publisher: Dragonfly Books

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Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation own
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 26
Authors: Cari Meister
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Capstone

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Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.
Lake Rhymes
Language: en
Pages: 150
Authors: Lee Murdock
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

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18-song CD to accompany this songbook and study guide of Great Lakes history and folk music
Slave Songs of the United States
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: William Francis Allen
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Applewood Books

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Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all wer
Through Darkness to Light
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Jeanine Michna-Bales
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-28 - Publisher: Chronicle Books

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They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865