Aquila's Drinking Gourd is a moving account of one young girl's experiences as a newly sold slave who makes her escape on the Underground Railroad. Through the words of Aquila, readers will learn about slavery in the United States, about the brave African-Americans who survived it, and about the people who fought for its end.
Card catalog description
In West Virginia in 1859, an eleven-year-old slave is taken from her mother and sold, dreaming of the Underground Railroad her father taught her about, but never imagining that she will board it so soon.
Aquila's Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad (Scrapbooks of America),Pamela Dell,Child's World,1591870135,Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction,Children: Grades 4-6,Fiction,Fugitive slaves,Historical - United States - 19th Century,Juvenile Fiction,Juvenile Historical Fiction,Slavery,Underground railroad
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