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Follow the Drinking Gourd

Follow the Drinking Gourd. Direction Translation. Follow the Drinking Gourd! Follow the Drinking Gourd!. The Drinking Gourd = the Big Dipper Points north. For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom. Old Man is slang for a captain Old Man= Peg Leg Joe. Where & When.

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Follow the Drinking Gourd

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  1. Follow the Drinking Gourd Direction Translation

  2. Follow the Drinking Gourd!Follow the Drinking Gourd! • The Drinking Gourd = the Big Dipper • Points north

  3. For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom • Old Man is slang for a captain • Old Man= Peg Leg Joe

  4. Where & When

  5. When the sun comes back and the first quail calls • “Sun comes back”= Spring • the days get longer • “the first quail calls”= Mid-April • quail breeding season

  6. Mobile, Alabama- North

  7. The riverbank makes a very good road, • “river”= Tombigbee river which is in Alabama

  8. The dead trees will show you the way, • Charcoal mud markings were put on tree and rocks as a guide

  9. Left foot, peg foot traveling on • The markings were of a human left foot and a round spot for the right foot

  10. Mississippi- Tennessee

  11. The river ends between two hills • The Tombigbee River ends at Woodall Mountain

  12. There’s another river on the other side • Cross to the left side of the Tennessee River • Why? Because it had a more direct northern route north to Ohio

  13. End of the Route

  14. Where the great big river meets the little river • Big river= Ohio River • Little river= Tennessee River

  15. The old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom • A guide will be waiting where the rivers meet

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