ALSO BY COLSON WHITEHEAD
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Apex Hides the Hurt The Colossus of New York
John Henry Days The Intuitionist
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Colson Whitehead
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Whitehead, Colson, 1969– author.
Title: The underground railroad : a novel / Colson Whitehead. Description: New York : Doubleday, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016000643 (print) | LCCN 2016004953 (ebook) ISBN 9780385542364 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385537049 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Underground Railroad—Fiction. | Fugitive slaves—United States—Fiction. | United States—History—19th century—Fiction.
BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Historical. FICTION / African American / General. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3573.H4768 U53 2016 (print) LCC PS3573.H4768 (ebook)
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Contents
Cover Also by Colson Whitehead Title Page Copyright Dedication
Ajarry
Georgia
Ridgeway
South Carolina
Stevens
North Carolina
Ethel
Tennessee