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Consider pairing The Underground Railroad with other literary speculative Black fiction, like Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison or Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.
Consider reading The Underground Railroad alongside relevant non-fiction texts like The 1619 Project and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations.”
Consider reading some of Colson Whitehead’s other work, like Zone One, The Nickel Boys, and John Henry Days.
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The Question and Answer section for The Underground Railroad is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Colorism is expressed through the differences in the way that those with lighter skin were treated differently than those with darker skin. Black people with lighter skin were afforded more opportunities, and they were often able to "pass" as...
Though I cannot give you the names of the exact cities, slaves escaping by route of the Underground Railroad from Nashville went through the states of Kentucky and Ohio.
A fugitive is "a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution."
