01679cam a2200337 4500 553002728 TxAuBib 20160811120000.0 160129|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016000643 9780385542364 0385542364 (OCoLC)933420484 TxAuBib Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead. First edition. 306 pages ; 25 cm. A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. 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. 20160811. 1800-1899. Underground railroad Fiction. Fugitive slaves United States Fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. Fiction. History. Historical fiction. lcgft Whitehead, Colson, New York : Doubleday, 2016 Underground railroad. 9780385537032.jpg Cover image