Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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 ...
The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama television miniseries created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021.
The home and blacksmith shop of Elijah Anderson in Madison, Indiana remains untouched as a historic building and safe house of the Underground Railroad. [1] Wilbur Siebert, in his book The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom and The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroads, wrote "Elijah Anderson, a brave, and fearless colored man ...
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, 1872 book by William Still; The Underground Railroad, 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead; The Underground Railroad, 2021 miniseries based on the Colson Whitehead novel; Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, 1994 Canadian television film featuring Tyrone Benskin
International Underground Railroad Memorial in Windsor, Ontario John Brown participated in the Underground Railroad as an abolitionist. British North America (present-day Canada) was a desirable destination, as its long border gave many points of access, it was farther from slave catchers , and it was beyond the reach of the United States ...
Set in 1850s America, it is a story about the Underground Railroad. Afrika, a slave girl from Virginia, and Lucy, an independent girl constricted by Boston society, take different paths in life, with Lucy exploring her family's history, and Afrika desperately searching for freedom, narrowly escaping capture.