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HFVS Underground Railroad Episode (Podcast/Radio Show)
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Underground Railroad Episode
WXOJ LP – 103.3 FM – Valley Free Radio
Northampton, MA
Featured Video: “Follow the Drinking Gourd.” According to American folklore, this song was a “musical” map which led fugitive slaves north to freedom. For a history of the song, see www.followthedrinkinggourd.org.
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PLAYLIST
- The Deedle Deedle Dees – “Underground Railroad” [Freedom in a Box!]
- Mountain Heart – “Gospel Train” [Road that Never End]
- Kim & Reggie Harris – “Harriet Tubman / Steal Away” [Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad]
- Toots & the Maytals – “Freedom Train” [Putumayo World Playground 2]
- The Deedle Deedle Dees – “Henry Box Brown” [Freedom in a Box!]
- Station Id: Bill Harley [www.billharley.com]
- Sally Rogers – “What Can One Little Person Do?” [What Can One Little Person Do?]
- Leonardo – “Makin’ Waves” [Makin’ Waves]
- Station Id: Steve Weeks [www.steveweeksmusic.com]
- STORYTIME: Read by Morgan Freeman (Music by Taj Mahal) – Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad
- Ethel Caffie-Austin – “Freedom Train” [I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad]
- Jawbone – “Oh Freedom” [Holy Guacamole! A Jawbone Jamboree!]
- Kim & Reggie Harris – “Free at Last” [Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad]
- Bill Harley – “Wade in the Water” [I’m Gonna Let it Shine]
- Larry Long – “Way Down Yonder in the White Man’s Field” [Here I Stand: Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song]
- Phil Rosenthal – “Darling Nelly Grey” [This Land is Your Land]
- Taj Mahal – “Following the Drinking Gourd” [Freedom: Songs from the Heart of America]
- Leadbelly – “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” [Lead Belly Sings for Children]
Discover the Songs: Lyrics & History
Western Massachusetts Resources
- Ross Farm (Hill-Ross Farm) in the Florence section of Northampton, MA
- Dorsey-Jones House in the Florence section of Northampton, MA
- The David Ruggles Center: Early Florence History & Underground Railroad Studies
- Sojourner Truth Statue Project in Florence, MA
- Northampton Association of Education and Industry
- Basil Dorsey: Case Study of a Fugitive Slave in Florence, Massachusetts (A project of the Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School)
- Massachusetts Underground Railroad Network
On-Line Resources for Underground Railroad Studies (where you will find loads of other links and resources!)
- Follow the Drinking Gourd – Art project based on a slave song. (K-2)
- Photos of Underground Railroad Locations and Signs
- Underground Railroad Video (BrainPop)
- Virtual Underground Railroad Quilt
- Underground Railroad Quilt Code
- National Geographic Online Presents “The Underground Railroad”
- Underground Railroad Code Words & Phrases
- PBS: The Underground Railroad
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
- Harriet Tubman (Timeline)
Reading List
- Harriet Tubman by Kathleen Kudlinski
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I A Woman by Patricia C. Mckissack
- Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell
- A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David A Adler
- Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery by William Miller
- A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass by David A. Adler
- Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
- Follow the Drinking Gourd by Bernardine Connelly and Yvonne Buchanan
- Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome
- The Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities by Mary Kay Carson
