The Underground Railroad
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From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a
magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as
she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora
is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all
the slaves, but especially bad for Cora, an outcast even among her
fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood where even greater
pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her
about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying
risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned Cora kills a young
white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a
station and head north, they are being hunted.In Whitehead s
ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor
engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and
tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar s 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.Like the protagonist of ",Gulliver s Travels, ", Cora
encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey hers is an
odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly
re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre Civil War
era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the
brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the
present day. ",The Underground Railroad", is at once a kinetic
adventure tale of one woman s ferocious will to escape the horrors
of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we
all share.",
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