It is in this context that The Underground Railroad was received with almost universal high praise. These are just a few examples of contemporary cultural salience of the experience of slavery and those who resisted it. Treasury announced Harriet Tubman would be depicted on a new twenty-dollar bill in 2013, the movie 12 Years a Slave made a splash and in 2004, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opened in Cincinnati, Ohio, to commemorate and educate the public on the histories of those who worked and escape through the Underground Railroad. In 2016, the year Whitehead's novel was published, the U.S. The subject of the Underground Railroad itself has experienced a resurgence in American literary and media culture in the recent decade. Seamlessly navigating the genres of historical fiction, magical realism, and speculative fantasy, it is both a poignant, touching saga of one woman's perseverance in her quest for freedom, and an incisive commentary on the history and present-day contradictions of America.
Throughout her journey to freedom, Cora and the other characters reflect on the character and workings of America: its promise of freedom and its bloody allegiance to profit and expansion. Published in 2016 by award-winning American author, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroadis a gripping account of a runaway slave, Cora, as she makes her way through a fictionalized American landscape.
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