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The Underground Railroad is a historical fiction novel by American author Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday in 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.
The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman’s will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we...
The story follows the journey of Cora, a young enslaved person on a cotton plantation in Georgia, as she escapes and seeks freedom via the Underground Railroad. Whitehead's vivid and lyrical writing style brings to life the harsh realities of slavery and the courage of those who fought against it.
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...