Peg Leg Joe
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peg-leg-joe-289-7562555
title:
Peg Leg Joe
text:
Peg Leg Joe is a legendary sailor and underground railroad conductor, popularly associated with the song "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd". According to the folklorist H.B. Parks, who collected the song in the 1910s, Peg Leg Joe was an abolitionist who led enslaved people through the Underground Railroad to freedom during the last years of American slavery. In popular history, he is usually connected with an escape route which led from Alabama to the Ohio River. He may have been a real person or compo
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encyclopedia
description:
Eighteenth century abolitionist whose existence is disputed
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Leg_Joe
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2024-04-19T08:34:11Z
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