This is the Underground Railroad’s multiperson memoir, with all the power and gravitas of an epic poem. It developed as a convergence of several. She opens: “I grew up like a neglected weed-ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.” The many narratives here are as ripe with metaphor as they are with exquisitely detailed recollections of the land and people encountered during escape, and with wonderfully rich descriptions of often-prosperous enterprises created once freedom was achieved. The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South. Occupying a mere half-page near the beginning of the book is Harriet Tubman. The result is a chorus of voices illuminating a harrowing chapter of history and the astonishing feats of resistance that ultimately beat back the system of American chattel slavery. To compile this book, Benjamin Drew, a white abolitionist from Plymouth, Mass., visited 14 communities in Canada and transcribed the stories of more than 100 formerly enslaved people. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave. A young girls courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize. Photo: Bridgeman Images A North-Side View of Slaveryġ. Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad. ‘The Underground Railroad’ (1893) by Charles T.
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