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The underground railroad : a novel /

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead - First edition - 306 pages ; 25 cm

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. 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

9780385542364 0385542364

2016000643


Underground Railroad--Fiction
Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction


United States--History--19th century--Fiction

PS3573 .H4768 / U53 2016

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