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The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad
Hardly anyone used it, but it provides us with moral comfort-and white heroes.

Schulz, Kathryn
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/22/the-perilous-lure-of-the-underground-railroad

Publisher:  The New Yorker
Date Written:  22/08/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

The Underground Railroad entered our collective imagination in the eighteen-forties, and it has since been a mainstay of both national history and local lore. But in the past decade or so it has surged into "the popular literature of this nation" -- and the popular everything else, too.


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