Follow the drinking gourd
Subtitle: an Underground Railroad story
By: a retelling by Cari Meister ; illustrations by Robert Squier
Contributors: Squier, Robert, ill
Series: Night sky stories
Publisher: Capstone Picture Window Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: North Mankato, Minn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781404873759; 9781404877146
Subjects: Underground Railroad; Juvenile fiction; Songs; African Americans; Slavery; Fiction
Description: Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.
Notes: "The song Follow the Drinking Gourd is an American folk song. In 1928 the Texas Folklore Society first published the song. Lee Hays also published a version of the song in 1947. We have used Hays' lyrics in this book."--Editor's note.