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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, an existence made even more hellish by her status as an outcast among her fellow Africans. And she is approaching womanhood, where greater pain and danger awaits. So when Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, Cora takes the momentous decision to accompany him on his escape to the North. In this razor-sharp novel, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box-car pulled by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Thus begins Cora's perilous journey, as she is pursued by a ruthless slave-catcher named Ridgeway, obsessed both with Cora and her mother, who eluded him years before.
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The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
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- Released
- 2021
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colson Whitehead
- Publisher
- Fleet
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0349726809
- ISBN13
- 9780349726809
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, USA, Literary Fiction, American Literature, 19th century, Africa, Violence, America, Railways / Trains, Escape, Race, Racism, African American Literature, Freedom, 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
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, an existence made even more hellish by her status as an outcast among her fellow Africans. And she is approaching womanhood, where greater pain and danger awaits. So when Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, Cora takes the momentous decision to accompany him on his escape to the North. In this razor-sharp novel, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box-car pulled by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Thus begins Cora's perilous journey, as she is pursued by a ruthless slave-catcher named Ridgeway, obsessed both with Cora and her mother, who eluded him years before.