The first major novel about black America - awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and on the New York Times bestseller list for a year without interruption. Cora is just one of countless Black individuals who are treated worse than animals on the cotton plantations of Georgia. They all dream of escape - but how and where? Then Cora hears about the Underground Railroad, a secret escape network for slaves. Through a trapdoor, she enters the underground and begins a breathtaking journey, encountering grave robbers and bounty hunters, as well as heroic station masters. Each state she crosses has different laws and different dangers. Does freedom really await at the end? "Underground Railroad" is a manifesto about humanity and at the same time a virtuoso reckoning with what it meant and still means to be black in America.