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They could have used it to say if they are in danger. They can also say stuff like I am going to run away. they could use hair to do it. They also could use quilts.

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they could use songs to cumincate through the lyrics.
I read once that they would sometimes sing a song to tell the other slaves in the field that they planed to run away.

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they would sing songs, make quilts,

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They could have communicated like I am leaving 

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They would use things to communicate like singing and more

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They could use a language they made up where words in their language mean different things to people who don't know it. They could use it to tell people that they are leaving their plantation.

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code

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I remember this one song called "follow the drinking gourd" and the one slave was trying to tell the other slaves in song, how to escape.

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Some enslaved people would create maps on quilt that they make or sing songs with specific directions on how to escape certain places. For example, in the novel with something abut the Underground Railroad, the main character sang a song to notify her peers that she was leaving and going the way that the song described.

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They would use them to say there plans to escape or just to talk to each other.

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They would lose quilt symbols and map songs.

They would secretly communicate their opinions and ways to go.

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There could be words that have secret or hidden meanings. They could secretly communicate if they are leaving the plantation where they are going, or how they will get there

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It would have words that would've meant something to the enslaved people. They would talk to each other through a song about where to go to escape the plantations

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From what I've heard, enslaved slaves would sing and use ways that the plantation owners couldn't understand. They might have believed in folklore because it could give them hope for a better a future.

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they can make words have secret meanings like where to go and who to trust

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they might have used them to tell when were and who was going to escape. they probably used words to represent something or someone

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enslaved people used spirituals or other folk songs to secretly communicate amongst each other by maybe singing stories or using different words to resemble some secret meaning. some things that they might try to communicate would be what is happening out side of the plantation and how to leave and the Underground Railroad stops.

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They may have used spirituals or other folk songs to communicate amongst eachother  to tell other slaves that they are running away or that they all should do something or that something is going to happen

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They would have used songs, symbols, and objects. They would try to communicate a way to escape the plantation, or things that they need to escape.

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they would use quilt symbols and map songs and things like. that

They would secretly communicate their opinions and ways to go and symbols and maps

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They would use things to communicate like  singing and more. Also, they would try to communicate without others knowing.

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they could be telling each other where there would be going.

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Through the lyrics

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They might have used folk songs because they didn't want to let the owners of the plantation know where they slaves were going after they escaped and how they planed to escape. For example the,"Follow the drinking gord," tells people where Canada or freedom is.

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Enslaved people could use spirutuals to say things in song so that the slave masters could not understand. They could talk about how and when they were going to escape the plantation.

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They would use them to say there plans to escape or just to talk to each other

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it meant nothing and/or the owners could not understand what it meant

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They could have used songs and stories to communicate amongst each other. They would have tried to secretly communicate plans and possibly things that others weren't supposed to know.

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They could be trying to get a message across in a lovely, peaceful manner. They could also try to communicate in a way in which no one else but certain people can understand. Kind of like a code. This happened with the Navajo Code Talkers.

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In the folk tale it could have a code message or some type of image that could send something that could symbolism somewhere that was safe or when then want to leave.

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they will either sing or dance as sorta code talk because the owner of the slaves didn't know what the they were doing so it was a code for the slave to let the other slaves know. a few things they could have done are hand signals or bird noises or just noises. they also could have sung a song. they might say like this is where you can go or my owner is asleep

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they would have used them because the lyrics might have some meaning to them. they might have used other types of codes to communicate about trying to escape or leave after dark

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They used the folk songs to give each other hope, to show that they can get through and survive being a slave. They might've tried to use them to communicate a way to escape their plantation.

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the "owners" of the people wouldn't get the language because it is like a code that they wouldn't understand therefore they could talk and the "owners" wouldn't understand

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They would use this song language to say secret things like talking about trying to escape, but they would have it encoded with a secret meaning and a literal meaning so that the masters don't know that they are talking about something forbidden.

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They could have communicated like I am leaving

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Whoa

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because the songs could be code for what they were going to do

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Bell Ringer: How might have enslaved people used spirituals or other folk songs to secretly communicate amongst each other?
What are some things that they would have tried to secretly communicate?