Follow the Drinking Gourd
Title | Follow the Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Winter |
Publisher | Dragonfly Books |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1992-01-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0679819975 |
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 owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling. A fine rendering of history in picturebook format."--(starred) Booklist.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Title | Follow the Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | Cari Meister |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1404873759 |
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
Title | The Drinking Gourd PDF eBook |
Author | F. N. Monjo |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1983-09-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0064440427 |
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 runaways from a search party -- or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed?
The Gourd Book
Title | The Gourd Book PDF eBook |
Author | Charles B. Heiser |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2016-02-03 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0806155671 |
Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which has been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.
Through Darkness to Light
Title | Through Darkness to Light PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanine Michna-Bales |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2017-03-28 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1616896094 |
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, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
The Underground Railroad
Title | The Underground Railroad PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Dodge Cummings |
Publisher | Nomad Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2017-02-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1619304880 |
Imagine leaving everything you’ve ever known—your friends, family, and home—to travel along roads you’ve never seen before, getting help from people you’ve never met before, with the constant threat of capture hovering over your every move. Would you risk your life on the Underground Railroad to gain freedom from slavery? In The Underground Railroad: Navigate the Journey from Slavery to Freedom, readers ages 9 to 12 examine how slavery developed in the United States and what motivated abolitionists to work for its destruction. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses operated by conductors and station masters, both black and white. Readers follow true stories of enslaved people who braved patrols, the wilderness, hunger, and their own fear in a quest for freedom. In The Underground Railroad, readers dissect primary sources, including slave narratives and runaway ads. Projects include composing a song with a hidden message and navigating by reading the nighttime sky. Amidst the countless tragedies that centuries of slavery brought to African Americans lie tales of hope, resistance, courage, sacrifice, and victory—truly an American story.
Like a Bird
Title | Like a Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Grady |
Publisher | Millbrook Press ™ |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1512418994 |
Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms—including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bondage and offered a rallying cry for the spirit. Like a Bird brings together text, music, and illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator Michele Wood to convey the rich meaning behind thirteen of these powerful songs.