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Key ideas from the book
- Cora and Caesar risk escape from enslavement in the antebellum South.
- The Underground Railroad is imagined as a physical railway beneath the ground.
- Cora’s journey exposes different dangers and conditions across the states.
- The pursuit of a slave catcher underscores the threat facing people who flee bondage.
- The novel connects an individual struggle for freedom with a broader history of America.
About The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
In Colson Whitehead’s historical novel, Cora and Caesar flee enslavement on a Georgia cotton plantation and travel toward freedom. The Underground Railroad takes a literal form in Whitehead’s imagining: a network of subterranean tracks and a steam locomotive carrying fugitives.
As Cora moves from one state to another, each stop reveals a different world and new dangers, including the pursuit of a relentless slave catcher. The novel brings the brutal realities of the pre-Civil War era into focus while connecting one woman’s flight to a wider account of American history. It may interest readers of historical fiction and those exploring slavery, resistance, and the history of the United States.
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