02164cam a2200481 i 4500 287373036 TxAuBib 20170309120000.0 160129s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016000643 9780385542364 hardcover 0385542364 hardcover TxAuBib rda Whitehead, Colson, 1969- The underground railroad : 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. 20170309. ORO: Gift of Marion Sweetman. USM: Padula gift. National Book Award, 2016. 1800-1899. Underground railroad Fiction. Fugitive slaves United States Fiction. FICTION / Literary. bisacsh FICTION / Historical. FICTION / African American / General. Fugitive slaves. Underground Railroad. Historical fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. United States. Fiction. History. Whitehead, Colson, 1969- author., New York : Doubleday, 2016. 9780385537032.jpg