"The Underground Railroad" By Colson Whitehead. Doubleday, New York, 2016. 306 pages. $26.95.Author Colson Whitehead has said during interviews that he did extensive research before writing his newly published and much-discussed novel, "The Underground Railroad." Among the works he consulted were slaves' oral histories gathered by the WPA and published slave narratives. No doubt they were as grueling to bear witness to as his novel is.And that's what an immersion into "The Underground [...]
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