Review: The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead

Title: The Underground Railroad: A Novel
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: August 2nd 2016
Edition: ebook (320 pages)
Genres:

• Fiction
• African American
• Cultural
• Historical
• Race

Literary Awards

• Kirkus Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
• Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction (2016)
• National Book Award for Fiction (2016)
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017)
• The Rooster - The Morning News Tournament of Books (2017)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" presents a picture of how slaves were treated in America. Though the account is fictional, it is based on historical research.

Cora Randall, a slave, is trying to escape her hard life on a Georgia plantation and become "free". She runs away and moves around on the underground railroad.

This book is an emotion-filled read . Each time I read about the treatment of human beings as property in the United States, I find it incredible that this process was, and to an extent, still is accepted--the Constitution not withstanding.