TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whitehead,Colson
TI  - The underground railroad
SN  - 9780708898376
U1  - 813 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Fleet
KW  - Underground Railroad
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - 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. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. 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 steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants
ER  -