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About The Underground Railroad. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ”An American masterpiece” (NPR) that chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The Underground Railroad combines elements of historical fiction and magic realism to tell the story of Cora, a girl enslaved on a Georgia plantation who runs away in search of freedom. Whitehead’s book explores multiple aspects of systemic racism in ...
The Underground Railroad confirms Colson Whitehead’s reputation as one of our most daring and inventive writers. A suspenseful tale of escape and pursuit, it combines elements of fantasy and the counter-factual with an unflinching, painfully truthful depiction of American slavery.
Mar 5, 2005 · Underground Railroad Subject: Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History -- 19th century Category: Text: EBook-No. 15263: Release Date: Mar 5, 2005: Most Recently Updated: Dec 14, 2020: Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 1024 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!
The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a teenager who runs away from the Georgia plantation where she and her family have been slaves for three generations. Cora’s grandmother Ajarry was brought to the United States from Africa on a slave ship and died after decades working in the fields of the Randall plantation.
Aug 5, 2016 · The underground railroad is not, in Whitehead’s novel, the secret network of passageways and safe houses used by runaway slaves to reach the free North from their slaveholding states.
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