The slaves prepare the feast and have fun dancing before their masters arrive. A young woman named Cora is talking to her friend Lovey, who likes to dance and is very cheerful. Soon after arriving at Hob, Cora destroyed Blake’s doghouse because he built it in her garden and cut off his dog’s tail with an axe.Ī group of slaves on a plantation in the south are preparing a feast for one of their friends. After Mabel ran away, Cora became a “stray” and had to live in Hob with other women of ill-repute. Cora inherited the garden from Mabel, who inherited it from Ajarry. She is now living on Randall and tends to her garden every Sunday. Ajarry dies of a brain hemorrhage while working in the cotton field.Ĭora was raped by four men when she was a teenager. She has three husbands and five children, but only one of her children survives: Cora’s mother. 1-Page Summary of The Underground Railroad Overall SummaryĬora’s grandmother is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold multiple times before ending up on the Randall plantation.
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