Underground railroads and related resistance

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About the GOI

The underground railroad that people in the United States used to escape from slavery has been a model system for people working together to resist State oppression. SFnal representations of or references to underground railroads include:

Recommended

• Farthing by Jo Walton (an underground railroad that helped Jewish people escape oppression and murder in Europe)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (discussion toward the end of an underground railroad that helped women and other oppressed people escape Gilead)
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (a network of safe houses that the vampires could use to escape persecution in near-future USA)

Of interest

• The Boiled Frog Syndrome by Marty Rubin (an underground railroad that helped gay people escape homophobic and anti-AIDS persecution in the US)