During the Civil War, many slaves saw a drinking gourd, a hollowed-out gourd used for drinking. Since these stars are always found in the northern part of the sky, following them would lead north ...

They even tried to keep slaves from learning how to tell directions. The song ``Follow the Drinking Gourd'' was a secret code that allowed the slaves in Alabama and Mississippi to find their way ...

It will start Jan. 25. “Follow the Drinking Gourd: Stars of Freedom,” partly based on a children’s book, tells the tale of how the Big Dipper, also known as the Drinking Gourd, provided a ...

Treasure Hunters left off with a cliffhanger of sorts last week. The puzzling race for gold did not have an elimination, but instead, stopped right as it was about to reveal if one of the teams ...

“Follow the drinking gourd! Follow the drinking gourd. For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom If you follow the drinking gourd. When the sun comes back, and the first quail ...

This month, you can learn how slaves used constellations to navigate their way North via the Underground Railroad in “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” a free show at the Virginia Living Museum’s ...

whose swampy environs hide runaway slaves desperate to join the Underground Railroad and “follow the drinking gourd” north to freedom. When Ezekias Drummond, the principal conductor of the ...

“Follow the drinking gourd” was a reference to the Big Dipper, Carol Evans said, explaining that looking up to the heavens was a way for people escaping slavery to make sure they were heading ...

Based on Jeanette Winters’ book by the same title, this show describes the astronomy behind the slave song “Follow the Drinking Gourd.”(ages 6-12) ...

FOLLOW THE DRINKING GOURD is a feature documentary about the Black food justice movement Familyfriendly funny and moving this 60minute film connects the legacy of slavery land loss and climate ...

Some believe the fugitives also used encoded directions in the lyrics of the song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” to keep them from getting lost as they traveled. Both the abolitionists and the ...