![]() ![]() ![]() His trail ends at Saint Anselm's Catholic Promise, a seemingly derelict community center run by Father Barton. Īs the novel opens, Victor is tracking down the peeb escapee Jackdaw, whose last known whereabouts have led Victor to Indianapolis. If Victor refuses to help, the agent has threatened to return him to the plantation from which he escaped and he can be tracked by a device implanted in his spine if he tries to run. Marshal Bridge, infiltrating and gathering evidence to prosecute fellow escapees and the people and organisations helping peebs escape slavery. The novel is narrated by Victor, a former Person Bound to Labor ('peeb') who, after escaping the Hard Four, has been forced to work as an undercover agent for U.S. The novel attracted praise for exploring racism through the alternate-history mechanism. Its name evokes the Underground Railroad in relations to its setting. As a result, slavery has remained legal in the "Hard Four" (a group of Southern states that have kept slavery): Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and a unified Carolina. Underground Airlines is a 2016 novel by Ben Winters which is set in a contemporary alternate-history United States where the American Civil War never occurred because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated prior to his 1861 inauguration and a version of the Crittenden Compromise was adopted instead. ![]()
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