01677cam a2200289 4500 271716669 TxAuBib 20160907120000.0 160129s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385542364 hardcover 0385542364 hardcover (OCoLC)933420484 TxAuBib Whitehead, Colson. The underground railroad / Colson Whitehead. First edition. New York : Doubleday, [2016] 306 pages ; 25 cm. Ajarry -- Georgia -- Ridgeway -- South Carolina -- Stevens -- North Carolina -- Ethel -- Tennessee -- Caesar -- Indiana -- Mabel -- The North. 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.-- from publisher's description. 20160907. Underground railroad Fiction. Fugitive slaves United States Fiction. United States History 19th century Fiction. United States. Historical fiction.