Summary: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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Cora is a black slave, who dreamt of living her life in freedom and to look for her mother who abandoned her at young age.

One day, she is then approached by another slave named Caesar, while working on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Caesar offered a glimpse of freedom to her.

Persistent to get out of bondage, she found her courage and killed someone while escaping. She have gone through a lot and even pretended to be someone else.

Colson Whitehead’s haunting recapture of the numerous horrors of black slavery in the Southern part of the Americas is visibly featured in his award-winning literary masterpiece “The Underground Railroad”, and serves as a conscious message of the white supremacy that existed for decades.

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