The Underground Railroad
By Colson Whitehead
Oh my gosh, this book was so very well written, but so hard to make it through. I read it insanely fast because I just wanted it to be over. I had originally checked it out from the library via audiobook, but after I realized how graphic it was, I promptly returned it.
The story is of a woman who was a slave during the time the USA still had slaves. Like I said, it was very well written and detailed for how it was for people trying to get away from the plantations where they were being treated so poorly. It was so well written that it physically hurt me to read what was on the page. But it also detailed how disturbed some of the slave owners were with what they thought was their property. The book is a novel, but it could have been any one of many people's stories.
If you want to learn about how different African American tried to escape from the horrors of slavery, then I can't think of a better written account via a novel, but it is a really heavy read.
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