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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Jeanine Michna-Bales, âThrough Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroadâ (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017)
Description: When the Sun comes back
And the first quail calls
Follow the Drinkinâ Gourd.
For the old man is a-waiting for to carry you to freedom
If you follow the Drinkinâ Gourd.
-âFollow the Drinkinâ Gourdâ author unknown (possibly Peg Leg Joe)
They left in the middle of the night, often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold har...