Sentences with phrase «underground railroad»

How did this aspect of magical realism impact your concept of how the real underground railroad worked?

This aspect of the story made the actual underground railroad come alive in a way..

I do worry about whether people who read this book are going to try to take this as an actual history of the real underground railroad.

In terms of my concept of the actual underground railroad... I think this helps point to the great coordination and infrastructure that was necessary to make it work.

Don't forget the RCC running a Nazi underground railroad at the end of WW2.

That's what the literal underground railroad demonstrate, what Cora commits to following and why the struggle never ends — even today.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, left, and Karen Hill, executive director of the Harriet Tubman Home National Historical Park, discuss the revered underground railroad conductor's contributions to the abolition and suffrage movements.

With the help of Whiteheads unconventional underground railroad this story takes a novel twist.

And, of course, there's the physical underground railroad itself, which is, in Whitehead's telling, running on unpredictable schedules and routes through tunnels built by mysterious hands.

Using magical realism here does not impact my concept of how the real underground railroad worked in anyway - it seems that no more people were able to use the fictional one at a given time or in a safer way than they were the real one.

The railroad as depicted here worked the same way as the real underground railroad except that this book version had an actual railroad underground.

Maybe getting involved in a GUR (greyhound underground railroad) run is for you.

The newly formed city grew in size and importance, and in 1896 opened continental Europe's first underground railroad.

Some claimants arrive in Canada after making a trip across three continents along what has become a modern underground railroad.

I think this is a pivotal statement and that Whitehead created a literal underground railroad to demonstrate its truth.

And I learned that I really do not understand the actual underground railroad.

The race relations in the various states doesn't really reflect what they were like at the time of the real underground railroad.

According to history, white people along with Harriet Tubman and others, helped slaves escape through the underground railroad.

The city is a destination for an underground railroad operated by Mark Arabo, founder of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks safe passage for Iraqi Christians fleeing ISIS.

Kirkpatrick, currently senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, spoke with Christianity Today about how this underground railroad operates and the dire situation inside North Korea.

Asia's underground railroad has deeply Christian origins, says journalist Melanie Kirkpatrick.

«The underground railroad wasn't our first choice.

The «million little schisms» you refer makes me think of slaves coming North through the underground railroad.

They were a huge part of the underground railroad and propagating the belief that everyone is equal.

These colleges educated women as well as men, and many were on the underground railroad.

Since then, almost as though by underground railroad, IC has been popping up at all points of the compass.

May 9: Storytime at the Museums presents Follow the Drinking Gourd to introduce preschoolers to the underground railroad at one of its actual stops (Newton)

Shapes and colors are inviting, from the vividly joyous coronation to a garden of heart - shaped herb run by the tormented Zuri (Forest Whitaker) and the underground railroad (what a dope reference!)

In this book, the underground railroad is just that — underground.

Another slave, Caesar, has learned that a new spur of the underground railroad - in Whitehead's world it is an actual railroad with tracks and trains - has been extended as far south as Georgia.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD tells the story of Cora, a plantation slave, and her desire for freedom.

«The treasure, of course, was the underground railroad... Some might call freedom the dearest currency of all.»

- juliaa What role do you think stories play for Cora and other travelers using the underground railroad?

Rated of 5 by Sandi W. Unconventional slant An escape through the underground railroad.

The entire book was an allegory of different times in race relations beginning with slavery and the underground railroad.

Second, the odds of reaching freedom were so slim... it's as slim as a huge amount of people being able to dig an underground railroad from state to state.

«In reverse chronological order, Cline - Ransome's pithy, lyrical lines lay out the prolific achievements of Harriet Tubman, from her campaign for women's suffrage to her role as a spy during the civil war to her iconic work as a conductor on the underground railroad, all the way back to her childhood.

What role do you think stories play for Cora and other travelers using the underground railroad?

Even though this was fiction, it might be the only book some read on the underground railroad and their perception will be skewed.

I wanted to learn more about the «underground railroad» - not a magical aspect - wrong book, I think.

They are fueled by the people who help her on the way: Lumbly, the station agent who introduces her to the underground railroad and the ambiguities surrounding it — no guarantees about your destination except that it won't be the same as where you are now, no assurance of continuity or permanence, only that it required a choice, a decision to take the chance.

The Underground Railroad — With a conceit as simple as it is bold, Whitehead's brave, necessary novel imagines a slave fleeing north on a literal underground railroad — complete with locomotives, boxcars and conductors.

When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

This story of a young slave seeking her freedom on a real underground railroad was also picked by Amazon editors as the best book of 2016.

Fortunately, there's an underground railroad — with angels» wings — hard at work rescuing some of these forlorn dogs and flying them to new homes on the mainland.

Some are part of an underground railroad transporting dogs from shelters in the South with «96 percent kill rates,» says Wellens.