Beautifully written book about the brutality of slavery. Cora escapes the Randall cotton plantation & the brutality of Terrence Randall, risking her life.Through the help of safe houses provided by the Underground Railroad, Cora & Caesar travel up North where there are free blacks. She is not able to escape the brutality, whether she escapes North or West.
It is shockingly appalling and sad the public displays of torture inflicted on slaves & blacks in general. The violence extended to any whites who assisted escaped slaves.
Slave catcher was a profession.
The book depicts an actual underground railroad, which I never knew existed, but after researching realized that it did not exist but a metaphor for what did happen in the 1850s.
This novel piqued my interest while highlighting my ignorance of our country's history and what happened during such a barbaric time.
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