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    To understand America, you have to ride the Railroad

    by Radhika Jones Aug 13, 2016 2 minutes
    Whitehead with Winfrey at her home in May; The Underground Railroad is her new book-club pick

    THE MAGIC AFOOT IN COLSON WHITEHEAD’S NEW NOVEL shows itself some 60 pages in, when runaway slaves Cora and Caesar, under the protection of a Georgia abolitionist, descend into what they think is a cellar but is actually a subterranean platform: “Two steel rails ran the visible length of the tunnel, pinned into the dirt by

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