This chapter examines Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) and Edward P. Jones’s The Known World (2003). By applying an emotion-race-space framework to the two neo-slave narratives, it provides a reading of fear and hope in the context of historical and ongoing forms of race, geography, and power. While the runaway journey of Whitehead’s Black female protagonist exposes the ways in which subjugation and confinement strategically produce Black fear and incapacitate Black hope, Jones uses his Black male slave-turned-slaveholder protagonist to interrogate a form of hope that is enmeshed with white racial and geographic power. Just as importantly, both narratives bear witness to Black female geographic practices as practices of revolutionary hope. In doing so, they make legible subversive intersections between Black hope and Black geographies amid and despite white geographies of terror.