The Underground Railroad (Whitehead, 2016)
1850 · Resource
Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel reimagining the underground railroad as a literal railway.
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Around 1850
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)