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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 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, 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
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 ...
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 ...
Numerous fugitives' stories are documented in the 1872 book The Underground Railroad Records by William Still, an abolitionist who then headed the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. [179] Estimates vary widely, but at least 30,000 slaves, and potentially more than 100,000, escaped to Canada via the Underground Railroad. [177]
The Underground Railroad is a new Amazon prime drama directed by Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) based on the 1999 best-selling book written by Colson Whitehead.
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]