Georgia Summary Cora’s mother ran away when Cora was 10 or 11 years old. Without a mother, Cora became a misfit among the slaves and was sent to live in the Hob, a cabin for women who do not belong anywhere else, including those who are unfit to work or […]
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Ajarry Summary When Caesar, a new slave on the Randall plantation in Georgia, approaches Cora and suggests that she escape with him, she turns him down. The novel’s narrator says that this response is “her grandmother talking”; three weeks later, when she agrees to run away with Caesar, it is […]
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Ajarry Cora’s grandmother, who was kidnapped from Africa and sold as a slave in the American South, eventually reaching the Randall plantation Mabel Cora’s mother, who, when Cora was 10 or 11 years old, ran away, leaving her daughter behind. Mabel was never caught, making everyone think that perhaps she […]
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Cora is born a slave on the Randall plantation in Georgia. Her mother runs away when Cora is 10 or 11 years old, leaving her to fend for herself and become fiercely resilient and independent. Caesar, another Randall slave, recognizes these qualities and persuades her to run away with him. […]
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Cora is born a slave on the Randall plantation in Georgia. Her mother runs away when Cora is 10 or 11 years old, leaving her to fend for herself and become fiercely resilient and independent. Caesar, another Randall slave, recognizes these qualities and persuades her to run away with him. […]
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The son of a blacksmith, Ridgeway refused to take up his father’s business and became a slave catcher at age 14. Even at that age he was a burly man, six-and-a-half feet tall. Over the years, he gained a reputation as one of the best slave catchers in the business. […]
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The Underground Railroad covers five primary periods in the life of Cora: 1. Life in Georgia When Cora’s mother, Mabel, runs away, Cora becomes a young outcast among the slaves of the Randall plantation. She fiercely defends the tiny plot of land she has inherited from her mother (who inherited […]
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Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a runaway slave who travels from state to state on railroad cars physically under the ground of the American South. Persuaded by a fellow slave named Caesar, Cora escapes from the Georgia plantation where she was born and travels north, […]
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