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Book: The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
ravages of prejudice and its bully partner, violence.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
a small freedom was the worst punishment of all, presenting the bounty of true freedom into painful relief.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
Taken individually, the link was not much. But in concert with its fellows, a mighty iron that subjugated millions despite its weakness.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
Sometimes a slave will be lost in a brief eddy of liberation.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
America was a ghost in the darkness,
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
When trafficking in cadavers, it helped to be immune to sentimentality.
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
... all the smart men talking about Manifest Destiny. Like it's a new idea. ... It means taking what is yours, your property, whatever you decide it to be. And everyone else taking their assigned places to allow you to to take it. Whether it's red men or Africans, giving up themselves, giving of themselves, so that we can have what is rightfully ours. The French seeing aside their territorial claims. The British and the Spanish slinking away. ... the American spirit, ... to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift up the lesser races. If not lift up, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. Our destiny by divine prescription -- the American imperative.""I need to visit the outhouse," ...
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Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad
Liberty make a body fertile," Georgina said. That, and the knowledge they will not be sold, Cora added.
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