The underground railroad : a novel
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New York : Doubleday, [2016].
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First edition.
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306 pages ; 25 cm.

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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2016].
Format
Book, LENDABLE KIT
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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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. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey -- hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, C. (2016). The underground railroad: a novel (First edition.). Doubleday.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. 2016. The Underground Railroad: A Novel. Doubleday.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. The Underground Railroad: A Novel Doubleday, 2016.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Whitehead, Colson. The Underground Railroad: A Novel First edition., Doubleday, 2016.

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