There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.” Later, toward the end of her harrowing escape from enslavement, the teenager realizes that the conductor’s comment was a “joke … from the start. Peering through the carriage’s slats, Cora sees “only darkness, mile after mile,” Whitehead writes. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America.”
When Cora, the fictional protagonist of Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, steps onto a boxcar bound for the North, the train’s conductor offers her a wry word of advice: “If you want to see what this nation is all about, I always say, you have to ride the rails.
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