Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad : A Review
Memoir of the black American Solomon Northup, a free man who was sold as a slave in the South, Twelve Years a Slave , later cinematized into the 2013 Oscar –Winning film by the same title left an indelible impression in the face of the post-colonial world. History records and keeps within its fold stories of unbearable torment, pain and anguish of a faction of the society by another. As civilization progresses, we cannot forget that the past is not , taintless, unstained. To willfully forget this history is cowardice on the part of later generations and therefore courage lies in accepting this bitter and harsh reality of human violence. Arguments, discourses and debates are prejudiced from one’s point of view and therefore cannot be sanction for intolerance, violence and injustice. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is an imprint of absorbed facts as it narrates the tale of a slave-girl Cora, her escape from serfdom to factually uncertain liberation through the Undergroun