02205cam a2200373 i 4500 278314772 TxAuBib 20161115120000.0 160129s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016000643 9780385542364 0385542364 TxAuBib rda Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The underground railroad [NEW] : a novel / Colson Whitehead. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2016. ©2016. 295 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Novel. 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. 20161115. cat stacks 20160915 kjw. Underground railroad Fiction. Fugitive slaves United States Fiction. Fugitives from justice Fiction. African Americans Social conditions History Fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. United States Race relations Fiction. Southern States 19th century Fiction.