![]() ![]() In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.Ĭora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey, as Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era. With Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, close on their heels, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, seeking true freedom. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. ![]() Things do not go as planned, and Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. ![]() Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood, where even greater pain awaits. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. ![]()
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