![]() ![]() ![]() Thus any written material or image viewed as iniquitous is burnt, every black person is killed regardless of whether they are slave, runaway or freedman, and any person of Irish descent is seen as inferior. The town's people have formed a human potential cult that eagerly eliminates any sort of ethnic or intellectual variance. Meanwhile, Caesar is cornered by Ridgeway.Ĭora's next destination is an unnamed village in the midst of the woods. Cora is discovered by Homer, but she gets away and escapes to the Underground Railroad. Ridgeway eventually finds out about Griffin, and he and Homer go there searching for Cora and Caesar. The town's citizens benefact the negroes only in order to engage in controlling the black community through coerced sterilization and forced drug use. But after a while they discover the reality behind the friendly behavior. ![]() Cora receives school lessons in reading and in etiquette while Caesar is offered a job as an assistant to a white scholar. ![]() Taken by an underground train to Griffin, a (fictional) city in South Carolina, Cora and Caesar are treated well in the beginning. Ridgeway boasts that no runaway has ever escaped him with the exception of Cora's mother Mabel, who had disappeared without a trace some ten years earlier. Hence, Cora and Caesar are stubbornly pursued by slave catcher Arnold Ridgeway and his underage but early-grown-up aide, a black boy named Homer. From then on she is not only a wanted runaway but a fugitive from justice for murder. On their run, Cora strikes a young man in the head, who was with a group of slave catchers. That organization consists of an unknown number of steam trains and a vast system of tunnels to transport runaways unseen to the non-slaveholding states of the US and finally to Canada. The couple sets its hopes on the mysterious Underground Railroad. Mychal-Bella Bowman as Fanny Briggs/Grace Īfter a captured runaway slave is publicly burned to death by his master Terrance Randall, two young plantation slaves Cora Randall and Caesar Garner flee from slaveholding Georgia into freedom.Peter Mullan as Ridgeway Senior, father of Arnold Ridgeway.Fred Hechinger as Young Arnold Ridgeway.Joel Edgerton as Arnold Ridgeway, a slave catcher.Cora, an enslaved woman from Georgia, joins newcomer Caesar to ride the subterranean train to freedom. In the novel and the series, it is an actual railroad complete with engineers, conductors, tracks, and tunnels. In reality, "The Underground Railroad" was a network of abolitionists, hidden routes, and safe houses that helped enslaved African-Americans escape to freedom in the early to mid-1800s. The series won the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film, the BAFTA for Best International Programme, received a Peabody Award, and garnered several other nominations including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.Ī fictional story of people attempting an escape from slavery in the southern United States in the 1800s utilizing a key plot element that employs the literary style of magic realism. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on May 14, 2021. The Underground Railroad is an American historical drama streaming television limited series created and directed by Barry Jenkins based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead. ![]()
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