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What did slaves sometimes follow when they started out on their journey north?
a.) the North Star
b.) railroad tracks
c.) a map
d.) the Mississippi River

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Mathy2000
A.) the North Star

As slave lore tells it, the North Star played a key role in helping slaves to find their way—a beacon to true north and freedom. Escaping slaves could find it by locating the Big Dipper, a well-recognized asterism most visible in the night sky in late winter and spring
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Answer:

The answer would be C.) a map The reason is they always sang a song to code the map and what to follow.

Explanation:

By finding the “drinking gourd” in the sky, people traveling at night could always find the North Star. Many escaping slaves — including Harriet Tubman, James Pennington, and Josiah Henson — may have “followed the Drinking Gourd” to freedom.

The American folksong Follow the Drinking Gourd was first published in 1928. The Drinking Gourd song was supposedly used by an Underground Railroad operative to encode escape instructions and a map. These directions then enabled fleeing slaves to make their way north from Mobile, Alabama to the Ohio River and freedom.

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