The Underground Railroad
Subtitle: a novel
By: Colson Whitehead
Edition: First large print edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781524736309
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Large type books; Fiction; Fugitive slaves; Underground Railroad; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "Oprah's Book Club : 2016 selection" -- cover.