Follow the drinking gourd

Title
Follow the drinking gourd

Personal Author EPSB
Jeanette. Winter

Summary
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

Year Published
1992,
 
1988

Physical Description
[48] p. : col. ill., music ; 26 x 28 cm.

Note (Local)
Regular
 
1-New

Program Information
Music
 
Balanced literacy
 
AR 4.3

Subject
Fugitive slaves -- Fiction.
 
Slavery -- Fiction.
 
Underground railroad -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.
 
Fugitive slaves -- Juvenile fiction.
 
Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.
 
Underground railroad -- Juvenile fiction.
 
blacks
 
empathy

Summary
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.

ISBN
9780679819974

Publisher
New York : Dragonfly Books/Knopf, 1992, c1988.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
George P. NicholsonE WINBook31004000041009Picture Books