And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor-engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.
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