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Follow the Drinking Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 48
Authors: Jeanette Winter
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-25 - Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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: African Americans
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.
The Drinking Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 68
Authors: F. N. Monjo
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-09-07 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the
Aquila's Drinking Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Pamela Dell
Categories: Fugitive slaves
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Child's World

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In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but neve
Like a Bird
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Cynthia Grady
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-01 - Publisher: Millbrook Press ™

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Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms—including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the s