Whitehead, Colson,  1969- <br/><br/>
The underground railroad :  a novel / 
Colson Whitehead 
 - First edition 
 - 306 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/> A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South  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 
<br/><br/> National Book Award, 2016 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385542364 (hardcover) 0385542364 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016000643 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Underground Railroad--Fiction<br/>Fugitive slaves--United States--Fiction<br/>FICTION / Literary.<br/>FICTION / Historical.<br/>FICTION / African American / General.<br/>Fugitive slaves.<br/>Underground Railroad.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--19th century--Fiction<br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Fiction.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54