Follow the Drinking Gourd

Reading Rainbow: Season 11: Episode 6

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Follow the Drinking Gourd

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PBS | Air Date: October 18, 1993
Starring: LeVar Burton, Tina Fabrik
Summary: 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,"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.… Expand
Genre(s): Kids

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