![]() ![]() She and the other slaves follow the man’s buggy home through the night. The man pinches Ajarry’s breasts to check if she is going through puberty. ![]() She stands naked on the auction block, and eventually a man wearing a pristine white suit purchases her for $226. These fantasies comfort her, enabling her to endure the brutal reality of her life. For the rest of her life, she imagines them working for kind masters and eventually living free up north. Published in 2016 by award-winning American author, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad is a gripping account of a runaway slave, Cora, as she makes her way through a fictionalized American landscape. The remaining members of Ajarry’s family have been sent to Bermuda. ![]() Conditions on the ship are hellish six weeks into the journey, Ajarry is gang-raped, and she attempts suicide twice. Ajarry is sold multiple times on the journey to Port Ouidah, before being forced onto a ship with people speaking a mix of languages (so as to avoid rebellion). Ajarry was kidnapped from Africa as a child along with her father (Cora’s great grandfather), who was beheaded by slave traders. When Caesar first asks Cora to flee to the north, she says no this refusal is related to the experiences of Cora’s grandmother, Ajarry. ![]()
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