TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,Colson
TI  - The Underground Railroad: a novel 
SN  - 9781524736309
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - [New York]
PB  - Random House Large Print
KW  - Underground Railroad
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - United States
KW  - Fugitives from justice
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Oprah's Book Club : 2016 selection"--Cover; Ajarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North
N2  - Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey -- hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day
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