![]() ![]() Victor himself is a sensitively rendered hero, painfully enduring the contradictions of his so-called freedom. I knew going into the book that it was written by a white man … I couldn’t help but Google the author’s photo just to be sure. ![]() ![]() Governments claim to shun commerce connected to slave labor, but convenience and the market prevail. Black skin is cataloged by dozens of official pigmentations - such as “moderate charcoal, brass highlights, #41” - to better warehouse white property. Pro football teams stock rosters with slave labor. The details that animate Underground Airlines are frighteningly plausible. Assigned to capture a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor must uncover and navigate many dangerous truths, from both past and present. A man named Victor, who escaped from a plantation as a teen, now finds himself tracking down escaped slaves for the U.S. In Winters’ gripping, layered thriller, the Civil War never happened. Winters, one of the most compelling novels of 2016. ![]() Not in the past, but in the modern, alternate reality of Underground Airlines by Ben H. His mind is precariously balanced between the inextinguishable intelligence that allows him to survive as an escaped slave and the crippling pain inflicted by his bondage.Īnd he lives in today’s America. ![]()
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