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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) A Novel

Colson Whitehead

#1 Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportuni...

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Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely and her brother learned to read from this book, which collected slave narratives, and it included the story of their ancestors, William and Ellen Craft.

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My brother and I both learned to read from a book called Underground Railroad that was written by William Still, who collected slave narratives from around the country.

— Episode: Civil Rights - Interview with Peggy Trot...

Episode: Civil Rights - Interview with Peggy Trotter Dammon...

Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely and her brother learned to read from this book, which collected slave narratives, and it included the story of their ancestors, William and Ellen Craft.

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My brother and I both learned to read from a book called Underground Railroad that was written by William Still, who collected slave narratives from around the country.

And the story of my ancestors, William and Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery in 1848 from Macon, Georgia, they have a chapter in that book.

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