![]() ![]() Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey-hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. 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. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. ![]()
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