![]() I know that everything that Colson Whitehead describes is accurate (unfortunately) and his book is very educational. I read it while I was in South Carolina and visiting houses and plantations where enslaved people worked and were kept as well as the Old Slave Mart Museum. There’s no safe haven without a major change in white people’s mentality. More progressive States had also hidden agendas. Helping out enslaved people may have you killed. ![]() The people who help with the Underground Railroad put their lives in danger too. The success rate of actually leaving the plantation and starting over in a free state was extremely low. She was raised on a land of fear, in a place where you didn’t know when you woke up if you’d be still alive and healthy at night. She has a hard time taking down the mental stronghold that her masters built in her head. We see the risks, the difficulties, the money owners put into finding the fugitives. Along with Caesar, another enslaved man, they reach a meeting point of the Underground Railroad that will lead her first to South Carolina and then to Indiana, via North Carolina and Tennessee. ![]() Cora, a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl flees from the plantation of her master in Georgia. The Underground Railroad is a historical novel set in pre-Civil War America. ![]() The Underground Railroad is my second Colson Whitehead, after the impressive Nickel Boys (2019) and I have Harlem Shuffle (2021) on the shelf for our Book Club. ![]()
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