📖 peek insideThe Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Cora is a young slave on a Georgia plantation who decides to escape for a chance at freedom. In this reimagined history, the Underground Railroad is a literal network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. As Cora travels from state to state, she encounters different versions of American life and the persistent shadow of a relentless slave catcher. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a powerful, surreal journey that examines the legacy of slavery and the indomitable human spirit's quest for liberty.
A popular book with millions of readers worldwide.
Notable Quotes
"And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are."
"Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man."
"The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse."
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