![]() ![]() ![]() She declines, thinking it is a joke or a trap. When Cora is a teenager, another slave, Caesar, approaches Cora with a plan to escape. She becomes a stray, growing up to suffer sexual assault and social derision at the hands of other slaves. Alone on the plantation, Cora proves her independence and determination by protecting Ajarry’s legacy, the vegetable plot, from the intrusions of another slave, Blake, and his dog. When Cora is still a young girl, Mabel escapes Randall without her daughter, who is relegated to Hob, the cabin for slave outcasts. The plot picks up with Cora, Ajarry’s granddaughter. Ajarry dies as a slave of an aneurysm while picking cotton. Ajarry’s one small act of liberation on Randall is to begin a vegetable plot on a small piece of land between slave cabins that her daughter Mabel and eventually her granddaughter Cora will inherit. ![]() She takes several husbands and gives birth to a handful of children, but none survive except one named Mabel. Separated from her family and reduced to her value on the auction block, Ajarry ends up in the southern state of Georgia on the Randall tobacco plantation. The novel The Underground Railroad opens with the story of Ajarry, a young woman who is captured by slave traders on the African continent and sold in America. ![]()
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