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The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

Whitehead, Colson, 1969- (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385542364 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0385542364 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 306 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Ajarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North.

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Subject: 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.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Historical.
FICTION / African American / General.
Fugitive slaves.
Underground Railroad.
United States.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library System. (Show)
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Burlington Public Library F WHITEHEA 39851001303396 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -
La Conner Regional Library FIC WHITEH 104430 FICTION Copy hold Available -
Sedro-Woolley Library ADULT FICTION WHITEH UNDERG 2016 20120001008432 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -

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