Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels.
Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground R. Each spread tells about a step of their journey through a poem in the first person perspective.
The main and repeating voices are Jeb and Mattie, but we also hear from the stationmasters and conductors, those who offer them haven, as well as those who want to capture them.
Like its predecessors in the Voices series, this richly researched and beautifully illustrated picture book brings a difficult chapter of American history to life for young readers. Luminaries who visit the farm deliver rousing speeches that quicken the blood of the negro residents.
In the mounting resentment of the farm's white neighbours, freedom for Africans in America is brewing. The whites who witness the flourishing and prospering of this negro outpost in the middle of Indiana, sense with growing fear, the rising of a black nation. It took a second read for me to comprehend the grandeur of the novel which Colson Whitehead has written.
On my second read, I discovered an epic poem constructed with a tiered magnificence that conjures the mountainous land out of which a multitude hands —black and white — have carved out and mapped out pathways to freedom. A multitude lives risked and often lost to free from oppression not only those who disembarked onto American shores fleeing poverty or persecution in Europe but those others who were brought and bought against their will, captives, human cargo on the Transatlantic slave trade route.
The age old binary of victim and victor began to manifest as the story of humanity which Christians call His-story. At its heart stands the cross. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies.
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