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The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead

Cora escapes a Georgia cotton plantation via a literal subterranean railway system. Pursued by a relentless slave catcher, she travels through various American states, encountering different manifestations of systemic racism on her journey toward freedom.

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