A Brown Bag Civil War and Lincoln Interest Group. Commemorate events, share insights, and talk about books or experiences. Book discussion of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
Colson Whitehead’s alternate history novel The Underground Railroad follows Cora and Caesar, two slaves in the southeastern United States during the 19th century. They make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantations by following the Underground Railroad, depicted as primarily a rail transport system in addition to safe houses and secret routes.