#underground airlines

[drunkenliterature]

"That’s the problem with doing the devil’s work. It can be pretty satisfying now and again. Pretty goddamn satisfying."

-Ben H. Winters (Underground Airlines)

[the-bookmark]

Underground Airlines

by Ben H. Winters

In this tale about an alternative history, Winters takes us on a journey through an America in which the Civil War never happened and slavery is still legal in four Southern states, known as 'the Hard Four'.  Victor, the protagonist, tracks down runaway slaves, then calls in their location so the U.S. Marshals can pick them up and return them to their owners.   In this novel, no one was what he seemed, which resulted in some confusion.

I didn't care for this nearly as much as I did The Last Policeman trilogy.  In fact, I almost returned it to the library unfinished.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Underground Airlines

By Ben H. Winters. 

[drunkenliterature]

“Time makes things worse. Bad is faster than good. Wickedness is a weed and does not wither on its own. It grows and spreads.”

-Ben H. Winters (Underground Airlines)

[zeloveinitiative]

Now reading...

...also for more than a year. 🙃

[shadow27]

Freedman Town serves a good purpose—not for the people who live there, Lord knows; people stuck there by poverty, by prejudice, by laws that keep them from moving or working. .... Create a pen like that, give people no choice but to live like animals, and then get to point at them and say 'Will you look at those animals? That's what kind of people those people are.'

Ben H Winters; Underground Airlines

[shadow27]

[epigraphic]

It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.

Austin Craig White, from The Dark Tower, a pamphlet of the American Abolitionist Society, 1911