In the variety of songs by Harriet Tubman and other enslaved people. there are many reasons why enslaved people used songs to communicate; for example, Harriet and others used songs to communicate because they would talk about slavery and they got in trouble because they would talk about being free instead of working and they started singing in code. so when their master would hear them sing he would think there singing about church, but there were actually be singing about being free. To begin with, an example of a song used to communicate between slaves during the underground railroad is titled “ A Glory over Everything” where it states “when old chariot comes” {pg.95}. In other words what this means is,that the people that take her back
