The Underground Railroad: Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead, how writers chronicled the resistance to slavery

Under the cover of darkness, the enslaved people of America fled further North in search of freedom. Sethe, the runaway protagonist of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, escapes from Kentucky to Ohio, ferried across the river by the Underground Railroad agent Stamp Paid. Harriet Tubman is rightly famous for how boldly she faced those risks.” Tubman, who made several trips back and forth as conductor of the Underground Railroad, makes a cameo in many of these novels. Book review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead chronicles brutality of American slavery, and the beauty of one woman’s courage Nobody better embodied its ideals of resistance and freedom than Tubman, who is partly why the Underground Railroad endures as a powerful symbol to this day. Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad, a limited series adaptation of Colson Whitehead novel, begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 14 May.