If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the
rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true
face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only
darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be
darkness.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves
lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an
outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching
womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a
slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground
Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.
As censored by the University of Essex !
This week's book is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
