01677cam a2200337 i 4500 271091633 TxAuBib 20160829120000.0 160129s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016000643 9780385542364 hardcover 0385542364 hardcover TxAuBib rda Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The underground railroad [R - Regular] : a novel / Colson Whitehead. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2016] 306 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. 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. 20160829. Underground Railroad Fiction. Fugitive slaves United States Fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. Fugitive slaves. Underground Railroad. Historical fiction.