Born into slavery, abused and mistreated, she later said of herself, 'I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.' Escaping from Maryland to Pennsylvania freedom, Tubman became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, who 'never lost a passenger.' Few there are who better exemplify moral and physical courage. By 21st century and 19th century standards, Harriet Tubman was heroic. By 21st century standards, 19th century military hero and politician Jackson could be classified as a racist and an indirect perpetrator of genocide.

It used to be President Andrew Jackson and now includes abolitionist Harriet Tubman. government changed the portrait image on the U.S. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.This article relates to Underground Airlines But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all - though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation.

Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called 'the Hard Four.' On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right - with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.Ī mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service.

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