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'Their stories need to be told': the true story behind The Underground Railroad

‘Their stories need to be told’: the true story behind The Underground Railroad
David Smith in Washington
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Don’t be fooled by the train carriage. The Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum might be housed inside one but its content has nothing to do with railways. Its true genesis lies across the street in the Pamlico River, once used as an avenue of escape by enslaved African Americans seeking freedom.
Leesa Jones, cofounder and executive director of the museum, says: “We realised through reading copious documents and old slave ads from Washington newspapers that would say things like, ‘My slave has escaped, they’re going to try to get to Washington to board a ship to get to their freedom’, that we wanted to tell an accurate story of how freedom seekers left from the Washington waterfront.” ....

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Review: Barry Jenkins' 'The Underground Railroad' adaptation is overwhelming and triumphant

Review: Barry Jenkins The Underground Railroad adaptation is overwhelming and triumphant
Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY
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In Moonlight director Barry Jenkins adaptation of Colson Whitehead s celebrated 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, a conductor claims that riding its rails will show the true face of America.
The new Amazon miniseries (streaming Friday, ★★★½ out of four) certainly endeavors to do that, via a vast epic of pain and trauma, yes, but also humanization and occasional rays of light. The primary conceit of Whitehead s novel is that the metaphorical Underground Railroad in the antebellum South – a historical network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to the Northern U.S. or Canada during slavery – was a literal one, with trains, conductors and stations. ....

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