TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,Colson
TI  - The underground railroad: a novel 
SN  - 9780385542364
AV  - PS3573 .H4768 U53 2016
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Underground Railroad
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N2  - 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
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