The underground railroad by colson whitehead ridgeway explains that the road they are on is called "the trail of tears and death". which line best explains the significance of the road? -"it's true what you say. this road was a horse path." -they were on what was once cherokee land, he said, the land of their red father, until the president decided otherwise and ordered them removed. -the trip to missouri was much more comfortable than it had been previously, tampered by little red feet. -"progress," ridgeway said. "my cousin got lucky and won some indian land in the lottery."