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Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
The central conceit of the novel is as simple as it is bold. The underground railroad is not, in Whiteheadâs novel, the secret network of passageways and safe houses used by runaway slaves to reach the free North from their slaveholding states.