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With the help of an inexperienced abolitionist, Cora and Caesar find the Underground Railroad, depicted as a literal underground train system that runs throughout the south, transporting runaways northwards. They take a train to South Carolina.
2 sie 2016 · In his breathtaking novel The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead demonstrates the earth-shattering power of an artistic voice to carry the legacy of the past into our now. He takes what we know to be true, but breaks free from the confines of history to create a brilliant work of fiction.
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. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The Underground Railroad harks back to these contemporary reinventions of the slave narrative genre. This novel, which is set in 1850, deals with the story of slave refugee Cora, a girl of about sixteen years old. The narrative starts off
19 gru 2023 · 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.
12 sty 2023 · "The Underground Railroad was a [19th century] network of secret routes and safe houses operated by conductors and station masters, both black and white. Readers follow true stories of enslaved people who braved patrols, the wilderness, hunger, and their own fear in a quest for freedom"--Amazon.com. "With 20 projects"--Cover.
6 paź 2016 · In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam...
