Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad details the journey to freedom of a slave girl named Cora. Whitehead analyzes the recurring theme of the depravity of slavery. He emphasizes familial relationships and in doing so, he shows that slavery strips slaves of forming those relationships. First and foremost, slavery took away Cora’s relationship with her […]
Destiny Jonson was born in Lafayette Louisiana in the late 1700s. As a young girl, she had dreams of studying literature and become an influential person later in life. She did not realize the challenges which were facing her until she became slightly of age. Born at a time when slavery was at its peak, […]