Download or read book D is for Drinking Gourd written by Nancy I. Sanders and published by Discover the World. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using the alphabet to introduce its contents, this book includes topic such as abolitionists, cowboys, Harlem Renaissance, and Kwanzaa"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Follow the Drinking Gourd written by Jeanette Winter and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 1992-01-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Drinking Gourd written by Barbara Hambly and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin January investigates the murder of a ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railway, helping slaves to freedom. Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded “conductor” of the Underground Railroad – the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief “conductor” of the “station” is found murdered, Jubal Cain – the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi – is accused of the crime. Since Cain can’t expose the nature of his involvement in the railroad, January has to step in and find the true killer, before their covers are blown. As January probes into the murky labyrinth of slaves, slave-holders, the fugitives who follow the “drinking gourd” north to freedom and those who help them on their way, he discovers that there is more to the situation than meets the eye, and that sometimes there are no easy answers.
Download or read book Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd written by Nyamnjoh, Francis B. and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africa’s possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded “frontier African” at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuola’s stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.
Download or read book Adelaide s Secret World written by Elise Hurst and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bustling city, Adelaide lives alone and watches those who pass her window, but a chance encounter with a kindred spirit brings her out of her shell.
Download or read book Grandma and the Great Gourd written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.
Download or read book The Drinking Gourd written by F. N. Monjo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1983-09-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Download or read book January s Sparrow written by Patricia Polacco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Polacco's most powerful book since Pink and Say. In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites?including young Sadie?must flee the Kentucky plantation they work on. Dear January has been beaten and killed by the plantation master, and they fear who may be next. But Sadie must leave behind her most valuable possession, the wooden sparrow carved for her by January. Through the Underground Railroad, the Crosswhites make the slow and arduous journey to Marshall, Michigan, where they finally live in freedom. And there they stay, happily, until the day a mysterious package shows up on their doorsteps. It is January?s sparrow, with a note that reads, ?I found you.? How the Crosswhites, and the whole town of Marshall, face this threat will leave readers empowered and enthralled. This is a Polacco adventure that will live in the minds of children for years.
Download or read book Big Brothers Are the Best written by Fran Manushkin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new big brother finds lots to love about his new baby.
Download or read book Follow the Drinking Gourd written by Wim Coleman and published by Red Chair Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery in the United States became illegal in the 1860s. Before that, many slaves found their way north by following the Big Dipper, or the Drinking Gourd as they called it. Our story begins in 1880 with Old Ellie and Old Sam, two escaped slaves who share their brave story along the path to freedom called the Underground Railroad.
Download or read book On Wings of Freedom written by Richard N. Levy and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Follow de Drinkin Gou d written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Play-Party in Oklahoma.--B. Botkin. Folk-Lore Relating to Texas Birds.--J. Strecker. Tall Tales for the Tenderfeet.--A. Penn. Fishback Yarns from the Sulphurs.--J. Deaver. Paul Bunyan:Oil Man.--J. Brooks. Pipeline Days and Paul Bunyan.--A. Garland. Le Loup Blanc of Bolivar's Peninsula.--P. Tucker. Pioneer Folk Tales.--M. Atkinson and J. Dobie. The Corn Thief-A Folk Anecdote.--J.raddock. The Texas Pecan; The Man in the Moon.--G. Bludworth. Follow the Drinking Gourd.--H. Parks. Some Negro Folk-Songs of Texas.--M. Bales. Six Negro Folk-Songs.--N. Smith. Confidences from Old Nacogdoches.--M. Emmons. The Ghosts of Lake Jackson.--B. Dobie. How Mr. Polecat Got His Scent.--K.O'Connor. De Pot-Song.--P. Throop. Notes on Some Recent Treatments of Negro Folk-Lore.--R. Law. Some Characteristics of Cowboy Songs.--N. Gaines. More Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk.--J. Dobie.
Download or read book Mr Shaw s Shipshape Shoeshop written by Eve Titus and published by Parents Magazine Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old shoemaker who loved shoes and ships never dreamed he would one day be able to combine both loves by moving his Shipshape Shoeshop to a ship.
Download or read book Aunt Harriet s Underground Railroad in the Sky written by Faith Ringgold and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cassie Louise Lightfoot encounters Harriet Tubman and a mysterious train in the sky, what follows is a compelling journey in which the author masterfully integrates fantasy and historical fact (School Library Journal, starred review). Full color.
Download or read book Bedtime with Daddy written by Nancy I. Sanders and published by End Game Kidz. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the award winning Bedtime Board books series features many of the same characteristics as Book 1-Bedtime With Mommy but with all new animal families! All around the world, it's bedtime, and daddies are tucking little ones into bed. From the penguins in the Arctic to the lions of Africa, it's time for snuggles, prayers, songs and bedtime kisses. This adorable board book features a daddy and baby animal in eight different habitats getting ready for bed. The final spread features Daddy playing a guitar and putting his son to bed. Celebrate your baby's bedtime routine with this special book today!
Download or read book Bridges of Memory Volume 2 written by Timuel D. Black and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of Bridges of Memory, historian Timuel D. Black Jr. continues his conversations with African-Americans who migrated to Chicago from the South in search of economic, social, and cultural opportunities. With his trademark gift for interviewing, Black--himself the son of first-generation migrants to Chicago--guides these individual discussions with ease, resulting in first-person narratives that are informative and entertaining.
Download or read book The Gourd Book written by Charles B. Heiser and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
