The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club)
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom
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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club), Colson Whitehead
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- Released
- 2016
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club)
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colson Whitehead
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 306
- ISBN10
- 0385542364
- ISBN13
- 9780385542364
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, USA, American Literature, Literary Fiction, 19th century, Africa, Violence, America, Railways / Trains, Escape, Race, Racism, Freedom, African American Literature, Alternate History, American South, Adapted into Series, Slavery, Slaves, Georgia, Pulitzer Prize, North Carolina, Black People, Arrest, Plantations
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- The Underground Railroad
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom