Underground Railroad

Cora is just one of the countless Black individuals who are treated worse than animals on the cotton plantations of Georgia. All of them dream of escape, but how and where? Caesar, a fellow sufferer, tells Cora about the Underground Railroad, a secret escape network for slaves. They access the underground through a trapdoor, and an exhilarating journey begins, during which they encounter grave robbers, bounty hunters, obscure doctors, and also heroic station masters. Each state they pass through has different laws and dangers. Does true freedom really await beyond the last border? Colson Whitehead's novel is a virtuoso reckoning with what it meant and still means to be Black in America.