The underground railroad
(2016)
Fiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
FICTION/WHITEHEAD,C
2 Holds
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, 2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
306 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385542364, 0385542364
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
890L
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