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The Underground Railroad [sound recording] /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher number: PRHA 6337 | Penguin Random House Audio60c2gn | Blackstone AudiobooksEdition: UnabridgedDescription: 9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9781524736255
  • 1524736252
  • 9781524736279
  • 1524736279
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3573.H4768 U53 2016ab
Read by Bahni Turpin.Summary: A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.
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AUD CD WAT Second life AUD CD WES Educated : a memoir / AUD CD WHI The house at midnight AUD CD WHI The Underground Railroad AUD CD WHI The Nickel boys AUD CD WHI We are all good people here AUD CD WHI We begin at the end /

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Read by Bahni Turpin.

A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.

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