Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, the National Book Award, and named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is also a Cited by: Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad, which in won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award and was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, as well as The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. He is /5(17K). Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a runaway slave who travels from state to state on railroad cars physically under the ground of the American South. Persuaded by a fellow slave named Caesar, Cora escapes from the Georgia plantation where she was born and travels north, riding in the boxcar of a secret underground train.
Buy The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. [ Colson Whitehead discusses "The Underground Railroad"] Traveling from Georgia to South Carolina to North Carolina to Tennessee to Indiana, Cora must try to elude not just Ridgeway, but also. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead review - luminous, furious and wildly inventive This thrilling, genre-bending tale of escape from slavery in the American deep south contains.
In Colson Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. Colson Whitehead’s 'Underground Railroad' is the focus of VCU Libraries’ 15th annual Black History Month Lecture. By Tom Gresham. When Colson Whitehead was in fourth grade, he learned about the Underground Railroad, the effort to help shepherd slaves in the 19th century from captivity to free states through a network of people, routes and homes. Whitehead mistakenly thought the railroad was an actual railroad, with trains secretly running on rails in underground tunnels to ferry slaves. The Underground Railroad Summary. Next. Chapter 1: Ajarry. The protagonist Cora’s grandmother, Ajarry, is kidnapped from Africa as a child and brought to America, where she is sold many times before ending up on Randall plantation. Ajarry has three husbands and five children, and the only one of the children that survives is Mabel, Cora’s mother.
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