Underground Railroad and the Civil War

Bibliography and Credits

Music

“Steal Away”, “Oh Freedom”, “Follow the Drinking Gourd”, “Ain’t I A Woman” from Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad, Appleseed Recordings, 1984.

Lyrics and Spoken Word

“Steal Away” lyrics from If you don’t go, don’t hinder me, Bernice Johnson Reagon, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001, p. 75.

Lyrics for “Oh, Freedom” and “Follow the Drinking Gourd” are considered “traditional” and are found on many web sites, although not found in the songbooks in this projects List of Songbooks.

Text for Sojourner Truth’s “Aint I A Woman” can be found in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, June, 1851, according to the archives on the Sojourner Truth web site. This site states: “Probably her most famous address, known as "Ain't I A Woman," was made at a Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 28, 1851.”

Photographs and Images

Painting (acylic on canvas) of Sojourner Truth is from http://www.sojournertruth.org/Art/1-3.htm.

Photograph (possibly a photograph; difficult to tell) of Sojourner Truth is from http://www.sojournertruth.org/History/Default.htm.

Web sites

American Roots Music, companion web site for a 4-part PBS series that explores the roots of American music, 2001. Refer to http://www.pbs.org/americanrootsmusic/pbs_arm_es_religious.html.

The web site Coded Slave Songs analyzes “Follow the Drinking Gourd” in particular.

Books

If you don’t go, don’t hinder me, Bernice Johnson Reagon, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001.