![]() ![]() Cora continues alone to North Carolina, where she spends months hiding in an attic before being discovered and captured. Ridgeway follows Cora and Caesar to South Carolina, where he captures Caesar. ![]() However, the slave catcher Ridgeway is in pursuit, all the more determined to catch her because of his failure to catch her mother when she ran away years before. Persuaded by a fellow slave named Caesar, Cora escapes from the Georgia plantation where she was born and travels north, riding in the boxcar of a secret underground train. 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. ![]()
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