Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad'.

'All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.'

There are so many sentiments in Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' which the world still hasn't overcome. Whether that is race, gender or religion. 

Only by reading stories like this, can we truly understand the plight, the horror, people have been forced through. The fear often of the different. 

We can't reverse history, but we can learn from it, to make sure that all humans are equal, that no one is owned or murdered or raped because of their differences. 

Yet in this world, these things are still happening, so this story set around the slave trade is more contemporary than I suppose any right minded person would hope. It hits home at the issues we are still yet to address, by referencing the close past, that we are all tied up in.