Reading Rainbow
Season 11 Episode 6 - Follow the Drinking Gourd
8.4 ?
1983
Kids
LeVar reflects on a time when Africans were brought to America as slaves. He talks about how African-Americans risked their lives for freedom, and discusses how the music from slavery times effected the African culture. Keith David reads the featured story, which explains that the African-American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," was in fact a coded message to slaves giving them instructions on how to take the Underground Railroad north to states that abolished slavery.
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6
Follow the Drinking Gourd
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