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The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 2016. The alternate history [1] novel tells the story of Cora, a slave in the Antebellum South during the 19th century, who makes a bid for freedom from her Georgia plantation by following the Underground Railroad, which the novel depicts as an actual rail transport system with ...
The Rev. W. M. Mitchell as he appeared in the frontispiece to his book, The Under-Ground Railroad. William M. Mitchell (c. 1826 – c. 1879) was an American writer, minister and abolitionist who worked on the Underground Railroad. He is said to be the only writer who wrote about the railroad while it was still illegal. [1]
They made it to William Still's house in Pennsylvania on November 22, 1855, [6] [j] where a photograph was taken of her in disguise [1] [10] for her mother. [6] In his station report for the Underground Railroad, he described Weems: "She is about fifteen years of age, bright mulatto, well grown, smart, and good-looking." [2]
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead [1] (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist.He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only ...
Motherhood in all its forms is a major theme on The Underground Railroad. Just as she does in Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Cora spends the majority of Amazon Prime’s limited ...
The Underground Railroad In one of The Underground Railroad ‘s most impactful scenes, Homer cries when Ridgeway meets his inevitable fate, and Dillon says those tears came from a genuine place.
Every single frame of “The Underground Railroad” is haunted. Ghosts of horrors past, present and future linger at the story’s edges, flicker in and out with eerie ease. People alive, dead ...
The Underground Railroad Records is an 1872 book by William Still, who is known as the Father of the Underground Railroad.It is subtitled A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of ...