Follow The Drinking Gourd: An Underground Railroad Story

Regular price $ 7.99

by Cari Meister

Picture Window Books

2013

SKU: 9781404877146

 

Follow the Drinking Gourd is an American folk song from the 1920s. Legend has it that a man called Peg Leg Joe taught slaves the song to help them escape to freedom. They used the constellation the Big Dipper and the North Star to guide the way.