but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood–where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go ...
The Underground Railroadis an imperfect take on a painful, sprawling subject. But its emotional highs and lows are stronger than anything you are likely to find on TV this year, just as those images are more gorgeous and nightmarish. Don’t look away. ...
After his work onIf Beale Street Could Talk,Barry Jenkinstravels further back in time withThe Underground Railroad. As much of American history will attest to, violence carried out against Black people is circular. Everything repeats, changes, repeats again. Based on the book by Colson Whitehead...
For a very basic overview, "The Underground Railroad" tells the story of Cora (Thuso Mbedu), a young woman slave who escapes her Georgia plantation via the help of the Underground Railroad of yore. But in this story, the locomotive is literal as opposed to metaphorical. While continuing to...
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In lieu of an , here is a brief excerpt of the content: Few events or movements in American history have maintained as strong a hold on the popular imagination as the Underground Railroad (UGRR). Its narrative of struggle and triumph, dramatized by the exploits of conductors like Harriet Tu...
Levi tells his brother about his life and adventures with his friends, some of whom are free, black children, at a time when the underground railroad is bringing black slaves to freedom in the north. Some men are stealing northern free blacks to take south and sell as slaves. One of ...
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It details how Still, in defiance of the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, became a pivotal Underground Railroad agent known as “The Angel at Philadelphia.” Self-taught and ambitious, the free Black abolitionist and director of the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad also became a ...