It was another thing in Georgia once the cotton boom starts up in the early 1800s. Slavery was one thing in Maryland in the 1780s. It was a great resource just to get slang and an idea of, as a writer, the variety of a plantation experience. Some are a paragraph, some are three pages, and they're very, sort of, matter of fact of what went on. They sent writers to interview 80-year-old, 90-year-old former slaves, people who were young when the Civil War came around.
The famous ones - Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs - but also the ones collected by the U.S. My main research was reading slave narratives. I think it's the dominators - the slave catchers and the slave masters - who write the chronicle of 17th- and 18th-century America. I think the slave catcher's point of view is probably the default setting on American history. So while in the car with time to kill, I’ve brought AUDIOBOOKS into my life!Īudible makes it easy to download my latest read, pop it on in the car or on my phone when I’m about to go out for what I hope will end up being a 4 mile run but inevitably turns into a sad, 1.I actually didn't research the slave catcher's point of view.
But since the days of my devouring 3-5 e-books per week while commuting by train, my life has changed and I’m driving a lot more. This gripping and brilliant audiobook provides a new understanding and perspective of the pre-Civil War era.Īnd then I heard that it’s part of Oprah’s Book Club this month:ĭo you remember when I was obsessed with Oyster books – like Netflix for Books? Well, Oyster went away, meaning I couldn’t read archives upon archives of free romance novels. Excellently narrated, prepare to be immersed in this magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a bid for freedom in the antebellum South. In The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead introduces readers to Cora, a teenage slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. But then I learned that this book is a different take on a familiar story as it is about an actual train that runs underground:
“Oh, another book about The Underground Railroad” was my first thought, not remembering any other books I’ve read about the topic. A few weeks ago I heard a segment on NPR about a new book The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
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