Meanwhile, Victor realizes that there is a corporate conspiracy afoot. When Kevin tries to fight slavery, he is defeated by the police who also kidnap his ex-girlfriend. Kevin works with Father Barton, we learn, which is the leader of the Underground Airlines. When he and his new friend Martha are caught stealing from a breakfast buffet, they flee, and in the process, the meet Jackdaw, a freeborn African-American guy who is in college. He gathers recon about an operation called Underground Airlines. He is a spy for US Marshal Bridge, but the government basically extorts him into it.

Victor is a Person Bound to Labor, has escaped the states in the South where slavery remained legal because of a fictitious assassination of President Lincoln before he took office. In this novel, an alternate history unfolds about the Civil War. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child-who may be Victor's salvation. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called 'the Hard Four.' On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right-with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.Īs he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom.

Underground airlines