Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, MacArthur fellow, and New York Times bestselling author stops by Google to talk about his book, The Underground Railroad. Whitehead’s novel is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Join Cora, an escaped young woman on her attempts to find freedom from an antebellum cotton plantation in Georgia.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits
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