Underground Railroad John Parker, a former slave, was a daring conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, is a fixture on Narcisse's desk.
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Underground Railroad The British North American provinces, or Canada, were among the most storied termini of the Underground Railroad.
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Underground Railroad When I learned about the Underground Railroad as a child, I always wondered about the last steps to freedom.
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The Underground Railroad Kathryn Schulz's article on the exaggerated importance of the Underground Railroad to the abolition movement is misguided ("Derailed," August 22nd).
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As in Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," in which there was a literal underground railroad, there is a tear here in the fabric of reality.
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Something of a historical novel, The Underground Railroad is not without a Whitehead-ian twist: the underground railroad is a real one, with trains and conductors.
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The Underground Railroad in Whitehead's imagination is not the secret network of passageways and homes used to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom, but rather an actual underground railroad network.
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Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Underground Railroad" is a fictionalization of the antebellum South, in which the underground railroad is an actual series of secret train tracks living beneath the earth.
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The Underground Railroad is a brilliant and beautifully crafted book.
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To every reviewer that found The Underground Railroad gratuitous in
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Colson Whitehead's novel "The Underground Railroad" is a best seller.
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Catch up on Season 1 of this Underground Railroad thriller.
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It was later an important stop on the Underground Railroad.
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After all, this is a tour of the Underground Railroad.
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Monroe was also a station master in the Underground Railroad.
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Much like Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad took the historical Underground Railroad and turned it into a fantastical subterranean railway, Exit West transforms the realities of the refugee crisis in its own otherworldly way.
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I agree that we need to let go of the Eurocentric notion of the Underground Railroad, but we can't recast the Underground Railroad as a minor part of the resistance among African-Americans, either.
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In Ohio, the River to Lake Freedom Trail supplements the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati by showcasing the 3,000 miles of trails used in the most extensive route system in the Underground Railroad.
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There are houses here that were part of the Underground Railroad!
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Plays re-enacting Harriet Tubman and the underground railroad or Rev.
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I would often ask myself, what is the new Underground Railroad?
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A finished upper floor was a location on the Underground Railroad.
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" Now on top of the pile: Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad.
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Some recent Underground Railroad stories manage to resist that figure's allure.
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In "The Underground Railroad," he more or less reverses his earlier trick.
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"The Underground Railroad" has been on my night stand for a while.
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Colson Whitehead's best-selling novel "The Underground Railroad," which was selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club, centers on a slave named Cora who escapes a Georgia plantation and flees north via the underground railroad — a literal subterranean railroad.
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Whitehead took home the fiction award for The Underground Railroad, his widely popular novel about a young slave named Cora who decides to escape her Georgia plantation using an actual underground railroad made up of a vast train network.
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Designing an underground railroad and activating it are of course two different things.
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Now, she's being transported to another mysterious stop on the Mayday underground railroad.
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On Monday, the streaming service also announced Barry Jenkins' Underground Railroad limited series.
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And so they would, traveling a new underground railroad from red to blue.
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She later claimed to have never lost a passenger on the Underground Railroad.
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North Olmsted, a suburb of Cleveland, was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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These days, references to the Underground Railroad course through literary and popular culture.
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Octavia E. Butler's "Kindred" and Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" come to mind.
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"They were an underground railroad of sorts," said Marcie Crim, KHJN's executive director.
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Underground Railroad On a brutally cold Saturday in January, my family and I are on the stairs of the National Museum of the American Indian, waiting to begin a NYC Slavery and the Underground Railroad Tour that covers the financial district.
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The famous abolitionist meets up with Rosalee to introduce her to the Underground Railroad.
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The Underground Railroad is a thoughtful, allegorical journey through America's ugly history of racism.
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The structure of The Underground Railroad similarly sets it apart from other historical fictions.
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In the nineteenth century, the church served as a stop along the Underground Railroad.
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His anti-slavery passion led him toward collective action, working with the Underground Railroad.
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Tubman helped lead dozens of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad network.
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It was the first capital of Ohio, and a stop on the underground railroad.
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The building's cellar is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Vive has become the penultimate stop on a modern variant of the Underground Railroad.
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The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora, a young slave woman who runs away from a plantation on Georgia and makes her way through America's slave states on the Underground Railroad, all the while pursued by a relentless, Javert-like slave catcher.
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She is the consulting historian for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and National Park in Maryland and serves as an interpretive specialist for numerous public history initiatives related to Tubman and the Underground Railroad in Maryland, Delaware, and New York.
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As part of the lesson, children pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad.
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The Underground Railroad game came to light following the blackface scandals in Virginia involving Gov.
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The literalization of the Underground Railroad is not the only dreamlike touch in the novel.
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Pamela PaulEditor of The New York Times Book Review THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, by Colson Whitehead.
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Her last story for The New York Times was about the Underground Railroad in Florida.
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He also ventured into megalithic stone tunnels, which had been mislabeled as Underground Railroad outposts.
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Niagara Falls, twenty miles away, was once a major hub on the original Underground Railroad.
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Ms. Parks trained her students in civil rights advocacy, Underground Railroad history and other subjects.
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Schulz mentions the Maroons just once, and distinguishes them as separate from the Underground Railroad.
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The majority of the Underground Railroad 'conductors' were actually freed blacks … not only white people.
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Last year, they walked the 100 miles to freedom along the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway.
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The network that rescues handmaids is clumsily named the Underground Femaleroad, after the historic Underground Railroad.
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The most notable was Harriet Tubman, who liberated over 300 people by navigating the Underground Railroad.
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The latest selection from "Oprah's Book Club" -- "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead -- made Obama's list.
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It's hard to list influential books of 2016 without mentioning The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
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Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, a ferocious and imaginative retelling of antebellum America, was the runaway favorite.
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She then became an Underground Railroad conductor and "created a stronger and better network," says Larson.
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She escaped slavery and helped scores of others to flee to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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Born a slave, she fled North like thousands of others who escaped along the Underground Railroad.
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The buzz is building for "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, which comes out in September.
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She may have also been a stop on the Underground Railroad, according to the school statement.
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His new novel, "The Underground Railroad," is as different as can be from the zombie book.
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In 2001, Rokeby was designated a National Historic Landmark for its role in the Underground Railroad.
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"Freedom's Wings: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary" (2001), for instance, was narrated by a young black man.
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But it wasn't until he released "The Underground Railroad" that he became a genuine literary phenomenon.
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Hiram, on the lam or on missions for the Underground Railroad, is captured more than once.
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What's clear from all these locations is Pittsburgh's significance in the history of the Underground Railroad.
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"The Underground Railroad" won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a 2016 National Book Award.
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The first national museum dedicated to the subject, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, opened in Cincinnati in 2004, and next March the Park Service will inaugurate its first Railroad-related national monument: the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park, in Cambridge, Maryland, near Tubman's birthplace.
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Harriet Tubman, renowned abolitionist and creator of the Underground Railroad, is the subject of very few photos.
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The refuge is built on a rail, symbolizing the underground railroad that helped bring slaves to freedom.
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He summoned them to the bell tower basement, which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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"Underground Railroad" insists that there is still no easy way to talk about the legacy of slavery.
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This provided a hospitable corridor for the Underground Railroad and, in turn, the struggle for women's rights.
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Shugart's records are a rarity; for their own protection, Underground Railroad operators weren't typically keen on recordkeeping.
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"The Martha network is essentially the Underground Railroad — and this is not their first rodeo," Brugel says.
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"We are at the end of the underground railroad," said Brian Masse, who represents Windsor in Parliament.
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Detroit, whose code name was "Midnight" on the Underground Railroad, was a pivotal location on the network.
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No one knows for sure how many enslaved Americans escaped with the help of the Underground Railroad.
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Pleasant often found jobs and housing for African-Americans who had escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad.
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Underground Railroad Game continues at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) through November 11.
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We've come so far, but the underground railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement in our nation.
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That's the conceit of The Underground Railroad, an electrifying novel just announced as Oprah's newest Book Club pick.
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But artist Dano Wall decided not to wait for the Trump administration to honor the Underground Railroad hero.
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The book follows a girl named Cora as she escapes a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad.
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For her new book, Jeanine Michna-Bales photographed 100 sites along the Underground Railroad under cover of darkness.
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Historians concentrated more on interracial collaborations before the Civil War, like the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad.
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"The Underground Railroad," a novel about American slavery and racism, has won the National Book Award for fiction.
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It was just like an account of a slave's journey on the Underground Railroad from 175 years ago.
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He and his family were active in the abolitionist movement, their home a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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And almost nobody comes to his church, a former stop on the Underground Railroad, save the occasional tourist.
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The basement was actually used during the Underground Railroad, one of the many pockets of resistance to slavery.
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On the Underground Railroad, geography is plot: the South represents iniquity and bondage, the North enlightenment and freedom.
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It is unclear when "The Underground Railroad" would debut on Amazon or how many episodes it would include.
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"The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead; "My Darling Detective," by Howard Norman; and "The Sellout," by Paul Beatty.
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And this fall, Doubleday will publish Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," about a slave named Cora; she escapes from a Georgia plantation and flees north via an Underground Railroad that is not just a metaphorical alliance, but also a real subterranean network of tunnels and stations connected by a rickety train.
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Tubman was known for saving the lives of dozens of slaves through a hidden trail called the Underground Railroad.
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And it shares that larger purpose with Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, one of the year's most acclaimed novels.
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At the time, it functioned as an underground railroad through which women could receive safe access to an abortion.
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"The Martha network is essentially the Underground Railroad — and this is not their first rodeo," Brugel explained to Vulture.
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A Virginia elementary school apologized for an "insensitive" Underground Railroad activity that included having students pretending to be slaves.
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But in his new novel, Mr. Whitehead grabs onto the most richly metaphoric conveyance of all: the Underground Railroad.
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In "The Underground Railroad," he talks about racial progress, and its limits, in a more direct, even prophetic way.
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An excerpt of "The Underground Railroad" will be published as a special broadsheet section in print on Sunday, Aug.
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The black Canadian population is connected to the Underground Railroad and the destruction of slavery in the United States.
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I read about the first time that she took the Underground Railroad, and what was happening around her politically.
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During the 19th century, Lancaster became a stop along the Underground Railroad, as residents provided protection for escaped slaves.
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Sure, many of us probably learned the basics: Pittsburgh's involvement in the Underground Railroad helped approximately 100,000 slaves escape.
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After passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the Mott home became a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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While there is no recorded proof that these areas were officially part of the Underground Railroad, the possibility exists.
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In 2004, the Yale historian David Blight edited "Passages to Freedom," an anthology of essays on the Underground Railroad.
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Whitehead, a canny storyteller, makes use of this narrative tradition in "The Underground Railroad," while also considerably complicating it.
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Fewer still took the kind of action that later made agents of the Underground Railroad such widely admired figures.
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A grandfather of hers, William Waring, was a freedman who worked in the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Michigan.
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He became something of a folk hero, with his supporters comparing him to the organizers of the Underground Railroad.
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This production from the innovative Lightning Rod Special begins as a middle school history lesson about the underground railroad.
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The Lyonses owned and operated a home for black seamen, which also served as a station on the Underground Railroad.
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The Moonlight director will write and direct a one-hour original limited drama, The Underground Railroad, for the streaming service.
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And as always, we close the show with recommendations: Aliza has been reading and enjoying Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.
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Another growing theory is that the site was used as a stop along the underground railroad to hide former slaves.
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"Much has been written about the Underground Railroad, but there is scant visual documentation," Michna-Bales writes in an introduction.
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The show is set largely on a Georgia plantation and covers the expansion of the Underground Railroad in the 210s.
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Participants can see firsthand how gentrification has shaped the borough, and trace some of the routes of the Underground Railroad.
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The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad was an instant hit even before it came out in 216.
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A house at 339 West 29th Street is one of the few documented Underground Railroad sites in New York City.
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What will you do when an underground railroad must be set up for women who need to have an abortion?
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The Underground Railroad relieves black and white Americans alike, although in very different ways, of the burden of feeling ashamed.
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"The Underground Railroad was just one among many efforts on the part of enslaved people to liberate themselves," she said.
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Tubman is a celebrated civil rights leader who was born into slavery and helped families escape chains using the Underground Railroad.
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Jess Joho: With all that said, the Marthas and their Underground Railroad was by far the best part of this finale.
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The school sits on the former site of the Douglass family home, which served as a hub in the Underground Railroad.
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You conceived of The Underground Railroad when you were younger and only picked the idea back up a few years ago.
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While living by Walden Pond, Thoreau harboured a slave who had escaped from the South as part of the "Underground Railroad".
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This week's episode features Colson Whitehead, whose new novel, "The Underground Railroad," is the next selection for Oprah Winfrey's book club.
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She subsequently led over a dozen missions to rescue enslaved people and deliver them to safe houses via the Underground Railroad.
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In their escape from bondage, slaves were protected by a network of support of the safe-havens of the Underground Railroad.
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Some made their escape via the Underground Railroad, a network of people who offered shelter as slaves made their way north.
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We had to be covert, going into prisons and getting people off death row; it was like running the underground railroad.
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In this haunting novel, Mr. Whitehead turns the Underground Railroad from a metaphor into an actual train that ferries fugitives north.
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Our deep exploration of the Underground Railroad includes sites in Canada, the country that people fleeing American slavery considered their salvation.
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Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction for "The Underground Railroad," a novel about the horrors of American slavery.
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In the 1800s, the song was a surreptitious alert on the Underground Railroad, as well as a funeral song, she said.
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In fact, despite its popularity today, the Underground Railroad was perhaps the least popular way for slaves to seek their freedom.
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The calendar, if not history, has advanced more than a century since "The Underground Railroad," to the early-to-mid-1960s.
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The calendar, if not history, has advanced more than a century since "The Underground Railroad," to the early-to-mid-1960s.
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" Mr. Jenkins is also working on a television series adaptation of Colson Whitehead's National Book Award-winning novel "The Underground Railroad.
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This week on the MashReads Podcast, we are joined by author Colson Whitehead to read and discuss his novel The Underground Railroad.
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Tubman was a prominent abolitionist, who was born into slavery and escaped, and later helped liberate other slaves along the Underground Railroad.
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Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo is taking on her biggest role yet: abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who freed slaves along the Underground Railroad.
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The letter discusses several of the monuments under review, such as Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad in Maryland and Stonewall in New York.
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Research on the Underground Railroad, and on the supposed use of quilts as coded signposts, led Biggers to begin painting on them.
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" Our reviewers recommend nine new books, including Colson Whitehead's daring novel, "The Underground Railroad," and Jules Feiffer's latest graphic novel, "Cousin Joseph.
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The Cèsar E. Chàvez National Monument, Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument and Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument are among them.
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While some say Tubman rescued 300 people during her trips, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway puts the number closer to 70.
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Eventually the area became, according to Ramirez's wife Melinda, "a really mixed-race community" and ultimately a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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His father was a farmer and a lay preacher in southern Indiana who sheltered escaped slaves as part of the Underground Railroad.
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The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center tells the stories of those who sought freedom — and those who helped them get there.
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The other current show, "Faces of the Underground Railroad," displays contemporary quilt squares portraying figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Mrs.
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Tubman waged her battle against slavery as an Underground Railroad agent and abolitionist, as well as a Civil War spy and nurse.
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They provided the safe houses of the Underground Railroad alongside Harriet Tubman and organized escapes while in danger of harm and imprisonment.
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Duffield Street is also called Abolitionist Place, in honor of those who helped run the Underground Railroad that ran along the street.
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Mr. Herrou is facing prison for operating a loosely knit underground railroad to smuggle migrants north, many destined for Britain or Germany.
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The actress Aisha Hinds dominates almost every frame of Wednesday night's episode of "Underground," the WGN America drama about the Underground Railroad.
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White Americans also feature as villains in Underground Railroad stories, of course, but often in ways that minimize over-all white responsibility.
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Sunday • Eric Foner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, speaks about the Underground Railroad at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch in Prospect Park.
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One day, she learns about the Underground Railroad from a friend, and the pair makes the life-changing decision to attempt an escape.
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Filtered through the perspective of a woman named Cora, the book follows her as she heads toward the north, via the Underground Railroad.
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Yet, despite being such a unique and singular novel, there are a number of books that helped shape Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
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The network on Tuesday announced the cancellation of "Underground," a drama that explored the lives of key figures involved in the Underground Railroad.
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On Tuesday, the fifth selection was announced: The Underground Railroad, the sixth novel by the MacArthur– and Guggenheim–award winning writer Colson Whitehead.
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As in The Underground Railroad, where so many corpses gather around trees like strange fruit, landscape gives silent testimony in The Nickel Boys.
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Even now if you mention the Underground Railroad to say, ten people, probably six of them will think it was an actual railroad.
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The exhibition also includes a focused homage to Ms. Tubman, the fearless Underground Railroad "conductor," organized with the guest curator Lowery Stokes Sims.
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"Underground Railroad Game," presented at Ars Nova, was an audacious exploration of slavery in the guise of a misguided middle school history lesson.
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At the park I told Dr. Ellis that I still wasn't sure why Pittsburgh played such an important role in the Underground Railroad.
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Meet the Garretsons: four generations still living on the family farm they've had since 1837, when it was part of the Underground Railroad.
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Film classes will dissect the movie&aposs religious imagery, political messages, parallels to the underground railroad, a broken justice system, and police brutality.
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The Underground Railroad was a covert network of safe houses and people in the United States that helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom.
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Margaret Atwood's book mentioned an Underground Railroad, but the decision by the writers to make the Marthas the ones who run it was spectacular.
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Also, if you are looking for something new to read, check out our official MashReads October book club selection: Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead.
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The push to replace slave-owning President Andrew Jackson with the Underground Railroad hero came in 2016, near the end of Obama's second term.
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Harrowing and insightful, The Underground Railroad explores how the institution of slavery shaped America and what it took to free slaves from its grasp.
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The trajectory of this underground railroad is from blithe, barbed self-consciousness to the subconscious, where land mines you pretended didn't exist keep exploding.
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On Sunday the headline-grabbing soprano Kathleen Battle makes a much-anticipated return with a recital of choir-backed spirituals evoking the Underground Railroad.
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Our Sunday print edition will feature an excerpt from "The Underground Railroad," a historical novel by Colson Whitehead that follows a runaway teenage slave.
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Thursday happens to be Harriet Tubman Day, honoring the black abolitionist who escaped and helped over 300 slaves find freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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Many tourists, and even residents, don't know the key role that the city of Niagara Falls played in the history of the Underground Railroad.
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Indiana's Conner Prairie, for example, offers a nighttime event enabling participants to play the role of escaped slaves traveling through the state's Underground Railroad.
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On Tuesday, May 0003, WGN America canceled its Underground Railroad drama Underground, which had earned critical plaudits and generally solid ratings for the network.
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Perhaps the least surprising appearance on the fiction list is by Colson Whitehead, whose "The Underground Railroad" was the year's most talked-about novel.
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In 1830, Henson fled with his wife and young children, endured hunger and exhaustion on the Underground Railroad and finally made it to Dresden.
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I've been saving "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, in order to read it just before our event in New York City in February.
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The underground railroad already figures in one series: "Underground," a generally well-received drama for WGN America that began its second season this month.
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The underground railroad in this case is a real train that runs underground, not straight and true, but through dead ends and hellish catastrophes.
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In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
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In the course of instructing the audience about the Underground Railroad, Teacher Caroline and Teacher Stuart inevitably encounter racism, but that's not the revelation.
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For the dad who wants to get lost in a book:The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)Cora is a slave who dreams of escape.
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell: You know, the fact that the Underground Railroad really hasn't been told as a film or a television show really fascinated me.
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The informal networks have been dubbed an 'Overground Railroad,' referencing the 19th-century Underground Railroad of abolitionists who shuttled slaves out of the American South.
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I visited the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ($15 admission), a museum that takes an unflinching look at the history of slavery and its abolition.
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The physical education activity involved students pretending to be runaway slaves while working in groups to get through an obstacle course representing the Underground Railroad.
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Colson Whitehead "The Underground Railroad," (Doubleday/Penguin Random House), centers on a slave who flees a Georgia plantation and escapes to a literal subterranean railroad.
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They raised them alongside their own two children, and were also foster parents for other refugees, short term, as a part of an underground railroad.
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In addition to her work on the Underground Railroad, Tubman served in the Civil War as a scout, nurse, cook, and spy for the Union.
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It would establish the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, based on similar networks Congress has created for the Civil Rights Movement and the Underground Railroad.
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Jo has been raised by an aging Chinese stable hand, Old Gin, in a basement apartment originally built as a station on the Underground Railroad.
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But to walk the streets of Pittsburgh is to see that the meaningful role it played in the Underground Railroad is hiding in plain sight.
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Two horses and a wagon E.E. Ward's legacy traces back to the 20143s, when John T. Ward served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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"Underground" was canceled too soon, but its two seasons blend a historical drama about the Underground Railroad with some modern flourishes, including a pop score.
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The property has a forested area, the historic walkway, where visitors can experience what it must have been like to travel along the Underground Railroad.
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The family bounced around a region of the Midwest thick with African-American history, home to settlements that had been stops on the Underground Railroad.
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Underground Railroad Late January toward the end of hunting season, this slice of Highway 65 through the Apalachicola National Forest feels like an armored convoy.
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The Underground Railroad entered our collective imagination in the eighteen-forties, and it has since been a mainstay of both national history and local lore.
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That history has been diffusing through the culture ever since, gathering additional details along the way and profoundly shaping our image of the Underground Railroad.
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These two stories collide when Kate and Andy experience their mutant awakenings in the show's first episode and seek help from Thunderbird's mutant underground railroad.
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" One mocking bit of dialogue in the show, calling the Underground Railroad "a silver lining to the dark cloud of slavery," was inspired by a 2015 episode of the public radio program "Here & Now," which said that "with the abolition of one of the worst parts of our history" — that is, slavery — "came the end of one of the most uplifting, the Underground Railroad.
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A similar number of slaves used the underground railroad, a network of abolitionists, to go north to freedom while slavery was legal in the United States.
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"You learn about this huge underground railroad of people who volunteer their time, money, and energy to get these animals out of kill shelters," Steklenski said.
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Studying these alongside other resources, she learned about various individuals, routes, and cities connected to the Underground Railroad and began photographing sites she managed to identify.
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The Nickel Boys is not a sequel to The Underground Railroad, Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning 2016 novel that reimagined the Railroad as a literal, underground escape route.
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He was about to start another book with another "existential black dude narrator," as he put it, but the Underground Railroad idea kept coming to mind.
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And we begin to notice, as readers, slight departures from historical fact, places where "The Underground Railroad" becomes something much more interesting than a historical novel.
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Mr. Brown had gotten some financial help from George and Mary Stearns, prominent abolitionists whose estate here in Medford was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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A 37-year-old French farmer has been helping to run an underground railroad for migrants, mostly young African men trying to reach Britain or Germany.
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As founding director of Maine Freedom Trails, he has helped highlight the history of the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement through the Portland Freedom Trail.
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Now, with a museum dedicated to this history opening May 4, Bradberry, the chair of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Commission, aims to change that.
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Also announced was this year's Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) Award winner, Colson Whitehead, whose novel, "Underground Railroad," won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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The Obies, which honor Off Broadway work, gave the award to "Oslo," by J. T. Rogers, and "Underground Railroad Game," by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott Sheppard.
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The Lyonses were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for black sailors that doubled as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Sojourner truth, these names and stories must've been said to me about a million times.
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Ms. Jordan said she liked the idea of naming the highway for Harriet Tubman because of her role as an abolitionist and in the underground railroad.
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"Runaways" of the Underground Railroad became Maroons, and a part of this powerful network of people that challenged the racism and violence of the wider society.
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Among his other concerns in this book, Whitehead wants to know what does: how the Underground Railroad really worked, and at what cost, and for whom.
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"The Underground Railroad" will be an adaptation of the acclaimed Colson Whitehead novel of the same title, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for fiction.
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She put her fortune to use aiding abolitionist causes across the country while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and settle down in free states.
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Throughout her life, Pleasant supported causes aimed at ending the practice of slavery, while also working with the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to freedom.
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The play starts off by providing the audience with a dramatic scene from what might be a historical instance in the operation of the Underground Railroad.
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But you know, I tell the story in the book of all of these teachers and mentors who, they were like my underground railroad of people.
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The Virginia school's students were asked play a Black History Month "game" where they pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad as they encountered obstacles.
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H is for Hawk won the Samuel Johnson Prize, Barbarian Days won a Pulitzer Prize, and every copy of Underground Railroad comes with an Oprah endorsement sticker.
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She took great risks traveling at night from the South to the free North via a network of secret routes and safe houses on the Underground Railroad.
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Then, she guided them through the Underground Railroad, a secret network of routes and safe houses, after he bought his family at the auction, according to Biography.
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Years after my first visit to the house, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad, I could still picture the green window shutters and elegant doorway.
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The apocalyptic sci-fi epic "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Underground Railroad," about the horrors of slavery, are among the books he read in recent years.
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They are a major reason that Pittsburgh had a profound role in the Underground Railroad — runaway slaves relied on the rivers to bring them to the city.
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Legend is the executive producer and appears as abolitionist Frederick Douglass on the show, which centers on slaves trying to escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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Tubman escaped from slavery and helped hundreds of slaves find freedom during the US Civil War era through the Underground Railroad, changing the course of American history.
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The first train ride that Cora takes in "The Underground Railroad" begins just below a farmhouse in rural Georgia and ends underneath a tavern in South Carolina.
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And while it may not be an "official" prize, Oprah honored Colson Whitehead's acclaimed Underground Railroad earlier this year when she chose it for her book club.
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The photography in this show imagines what stations of the Underground Railroad might look like, as the act of escaping enslavement is also essentially an act of imagination.
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The principal at a Virginia elementary school has apologized after officials had students act as slaves in the Underground Railroad as part of a Black History Month lesson.
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The exercise was planned to encourage students to work as a team to overcome physical hurdles as they moved through an Underground Railroad-themed obstacle course, CNN reported.
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Now sought out as murderers, Cora and Caesar flee via the Underground Railroad, which Whitehead reimagines as a literal subterranean rail line manned by conductors and station agents.
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Plus, a Banksy painting has set another auction record for the artist, and a trove of archives from the Underground Railroad shine a light on a dark history.
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In the game, students at Cheatham Elementary in Cobb County played the roles of slaves trying to escape from a plantation and gain freedom via the Underground Railroad.
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Starting with her early years — Tubman was born into slavery, in Maryland — and on through her escape, the formation of the Underground Railroad, and the American Civil War.
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The term underground railroad most commonly refers to a network of secret routes and safe houses that African-American slaves used to seek freedom in the 19th century.
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"We think that they suspected him of complicity with South Koreans working with the underground railroad to move North Koreans through China to safe houses," Roy tells PEOPLE.
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In this version of American history, however, the Underground Railroad is a physical train that runs beneath state lines, transporting fugitive slaves to mysterious locations around the country.
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Whitehead's The Underground Railroad—an Oprah Book Club pick, New York Times bestseller, and pretty clear "book of the year"—was always going to make the NBA longlist.
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"I wrote [The Underground Railroad] in 2015, had the idea originally in 2000, but took inspiration and ideas from things I encountered over 30 years," Whitehead told Mashable.
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Harriet Tubman, the female abolitionist who pioneered the Underground Railroad, seems like a choice that most Americans can get behind, but not everyone is thrilled with the decision.
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This corner of Windsor, a neighborhood called Sandwich, was settled in 303 and was once a terminal for the Underground Railroad bringing American slaves to freedom in Canada.
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Many layers of artifice are at work in "Underground Railroad Game," and no sooner do we find our footing on one of them than it shifts to another.
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Ohio was also a crucial state in the Underground Railroad, the secret network that led to the freedom of tens of thousands of slaves in the 19th century.
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That book, called simply "The Underground Railroad," follows a 15-year-old slave named Cora as she escapes north via a literal network of underground tracks and trains.
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" Despite the outlandishness of his exploits, the stops on Wash's journey have none of the allegorical quality of the towns featured in Colson Whitehead 's " The Underground Railroad .
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"I pass through the world, but I leave no trace," Seth says, echoing a line in Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," set decades earlier, in the American South.
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A few weeks before that, a school in Loudoun County, Virginia, was criticized for having students run an obstacle course intended to simulate moving through the Underground Railroad.
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Titled Systems of Struggle, her selections focus on important and often dark historical episodes, from the Underground Railroad, to the Salem Witch Trials, to the War on Terror.
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Books News After he published his surreal epic, "The Underground Railroad," in the summer of 2016, Colson Whitehead was set to write a crime novel set in Harlem.
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Magar, who recently directed "Underground Railroad Game," another disorienting treatment of slavery in the black and white imagination, manages to find the sweet spot between shallowness and overthink.
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Harriet chronicles the life of Harriet Tubman as she escapes from slavery and returns to the United States to create the Underground Railroad and liberate hundreds of slaves.
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He gathers the other prisoners in his jail cell to tell about the Underground Railroad, the Alamo, the Donner Party — my son's favorite — World War I, and more.
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Brave Berlin, a local design studio, is overseeing the creation of animated installations for the facades of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Contemporary Arts Center.
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Another notable work that made the longlist was Colson Whitehead's critically acclaimed novel "The Underground Railroad" — which already won both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
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At the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland, weekend visitor counts doubled year-over-year in the weeks before and after the premiere of the movie.
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Since 1998, the National Park Service has been working to create a Network to Freedom, a system of federally designated, locally managed Underground Railroad sites around the country.
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They were asked to read an excerpt from Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel "The Underground Railroad" and write a journal entry from the perspective of a character named Ethel.
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"Who built it?" one of Whitehead's fugitives asks, on first reaching a station on the Underground Railroad and peering down a tunnel where iron tracks disappear into darkness.
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It involved groups of students pretending to be runaway slaves as they moved through an obstacle course that represented the Underground Railroad, according to the Loudoun Times-Mirror.
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Those are the two takes on a game dealing with slavery and the Underground Railroad that a fifth-grade teacher in Georgia got flack for having her students play.
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The trailer, released Tuesday, shows her initial escape from slavery, and her decision to help members of her family to freedom, which started her involvement with the Underground Railroad.
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Starring up-and-comer Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, Harriet follows the abolitionist on her journey north and her decision to bring other slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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But far from simple, these images are loaded with history and meaning: Each one records a place along the Underground Railroad that the Dallas-based photographer identified and visited.
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As you may have gathered from its title and its safe word (which refers to the 19th-century African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth), "Underground Railroad Game" is about slavery.
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That's no accident of course because the Blackburn lineage, your lineage is tied to the slaves who came through the underground railroad, specifically your great great grandfather Elias Earl.
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I remember doing a play of the Underground Railroad, it was my idea from this book I had, at school and I don't think many people knew about it.
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The underground railroad is not, in Whitehead's novel, the secret network of passageways and safe houses used by runaway slaves to reach the free North from their slaveholding states.
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When she is approached by another slave about the underground railroad, she hesitates; but then life, in the form of rape and humiliation, gives her the nudge she needs.
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Directed with imaginative economy by Taibi Magar (who oversaw the similarly and splendidly transgressive "Underground Railroad Game"), "Is God Is" may be pitched in a key of absurd exaggeration.
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Though he hit many of his usual themes, he also checked off the state's notable moments throughout history: participating in the underground railroad, outlawing slavery, legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Directed by Taibi Magar ("Underground Railroad Game"), it's set mainly in 1989, when the American son of a Chinese immigrant brazenly talks his way onto a California college team.
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And then there's the number of enslaved people she rescued through the Underground Railroad, which was reported as 300 in her 1869 biography, but was more likely around 70.
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Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, incorporated elements of magical realism.
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Her potential Oscars would come for her turn as the runaway slave turned abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who made history for leading enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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He told us about his directing style, his plans for "The Underground Railroad," his love of science fiction, and, yes, that bat-scat crazy night at the Academy Awards.
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The novels and show use systems of reproduction under chattel slavery and the Underground Railroad as an allegory to primarily focus on the treatment of middle-class white women.
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This year alone has seen the publication of two major Railroad novels, including Oprah's first book-club selection in more than a year, Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" (Doubleday).
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The Underground Railroad is not only viscerally pleasurable to read — it's also filled with ideas that will swirl around in your head for weeks afterward as you mull them over.
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It overlaps in some ways with The Underground Railroad, in terms of a person being hemmed in by a multitude of societal forces and finding how to make their way.
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The US Treasury Department announced Wednesday that Harriet Tubman, a well-known "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, will replace controversial President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill.
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At the same time, many early leaders in the state were fierce abolitionists, who often housed escaped slaves along the Underground Railroad and made slavery illegal in the state's constitution.
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But when they arrived late that night, their home, which was built around 1780 and was once a Quaker meetinghouse and a stop on the Underground Railroad, wasn't bitterly cold.
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The Underground Railroad makes me feel like Colson Whitehead will enter the conversation down the line, but he's only 46, two decades-ish away from senior citizenry and Nobel speculation.
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"I wrote [The Underground Railroad] in 2015, had the idea originally in 2000, but took inspiration and ideas from things I encountered over 30 years," Whitehead told Mashable in October.
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As in Nazi Germany or the mythical 643s North Carolina in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, The Order wanted to get rid of all non-whites in the Pacific Northwest.
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She had no idea how wickedly funny he could be until the night they went out with mutual friends, and he told the bizarre story of the Underground Railroad game.
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Several literary critics suggested that Mr. Obama's decision to include "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead on his reading list may have had more political overtones than his musical selections.
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Tubman's own escape from slavery led her to help hundreds of slaves find freedom during the US Civil War era through the Underground Railroad, changing the course of American history.
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A blacksmith (Aldis Hodge) on a Georgia plantation plots his escape to freedom, and takes a group of fellow slaves with him, in this new thriller about the Underground Railroad.
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Churches around the country are gearing up to shelter immigrants imperiled by raids and in what BuzzFeed calls a "modern-day underground railroad" also work to spirit people to Canada.
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In "Underground Railroad Game," written and performed by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard, a chipper lesson from two middle-school teachers on America's sins transforms into a sadomasochistic fantasia.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The subjects of Jeanine Michna-Bales' latest series of photographs, Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, are difficult to make out.
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During her childhood, the Indiana native not only learned about the Underground Railroad as part of her formal education, but also encountered routes that ran across backyards in the midwest.
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Amazon also announced that Barry Jenkins, the director of "Moonlight," would direct all 11 episodes of its limited series, "The Underground Railroad," adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Recent, well-liked selections have included "Pacific," by Simon Winchester, a romance novel by Tessa Dare and "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, so I think we're up for anything.
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Performing with an impressive choir called Voices of the Underground Railroad, two fine pianists and some special guests (including Wynton Marsalis), Ms. Battle, 68, sang with remarkable freshness and beauty.
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The stories they recommend include tales of a 19th-century whaling expedition, a literal Underground Railroad, the Dublin Murder Squad's crime investigations and the secrets of a small mining town.
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For that reason, perhaps, he rarely sheltered runaways, and a tour of his house does not feature the crawl spaces and secret passageways that some on the Underground Railroad do.
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On the wall were painted lists of Underground Railroad routes, which included paths like the Old Sauk (Chicago) Road, Grand River Trail, and a route from Chicago to Duluth, Minn.
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In his new novel, Colson Whitehead exploits both those qualities by doing knowingly what nearly every young child first learning our history does naïvely: taking the term "Underground Railroad" literally.
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The revelation is that an underground railroad exists in the deep pathways that race has cut and carved out in our scholastic, professional, and, most importantly here, our sexual lives.
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Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts Democrat, questioned Mnuchin during a House Financial Services Committee hearing, asking about plans to put the Underground Railroad hero on the bill as part of its redesign.
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The fiction winner was no surprise: Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad is also an Oprah's Book Club pick, and it's been celebrated for its combination of propulsive plotting and complex philosophical ideas.
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Tubman, who died in 1913 at the age of 91, escaped slavery in the South and eventually led hundreds of escaped slaves to freedom as a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
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His former house in Lombard, Illinois, is now a historic site, and the homestead was added in 2011 to the National Park Service's Network to Freedom list of Underground Railroad locations.
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The list includes "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, a new novel about the secret network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom in the years before the Civil War.
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Researchers believe that the photography of Tubman is a carte de visite portrait dating from around 1868–69, when the abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor would have been in her 40s.
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But it was only when they went to a talk about the Underground Railroad, at Independence National Historical Park, that they found in the speaker's awkwardness something they could latch onto.
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One story tells of the ghost of a doctor named James Still, brother of William Still, who wrote 'The Underground Railroad,' who was lynched for practicing medicine as a black man.
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The ship deposits Wash and Titch in Virginia, where they meet an amateur forensic pathologist who uses his creepy hobby as a cover while operating a station on the Underground Railroad.
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Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night for "The Underground Railroad," a hallucinatory novel about the horrors of American slavery and the sinister permutations of racism.
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"Harriet" retells the tale of African-American political activist Harriet Tubman, who led over a dozen missions to rescue enslaved people and deliver them to safe houses via the Underground Railroad.
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He was there to promote the TV show he's producing for WGN America, Underground, about the Underground Railroad, and made the parallel between slavery and this latest chapter in American politics.
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I definitely think it's shaped how I think about writing pieces of theater and making them sometimes very explicitly, like in "Underground Railroad Game," about dolls and about how we played.
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Another vital bit of information: These are the people who brought us the searing, seriocomic "Underground Railroad Game," an Obie Award-winning hit when it ran at Ars Nova in 220.
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But "The Nickel Boys" is a more straightforward historical novel that lacks the surreal flourishes that made "The Underground Railroad" feel like a slightly altered, off-kilter version of American history.
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"'The Underground Railroad' humanized the story of slavery, and this is really about Jim Crow and the costs of Jim Crow," said Bill Thomas, publisher and editor in chief of Doubleday.
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Albro Lyons and his wife, Mary Joseph Lyons — also from a free family — ran a boardinghouse for African-American sailors that served as the perfect cover for an Underground Railroad operation.
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Sanctuary workers in the '80s organized a sort of "underground railroad" to move immigrants from dangerous regions to safer ones, and that may have to be reactivated, she told her workshop.
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Many who escaped stayed with one of the more than 300 people in Ripley estimated to be in service to the Underground Railroad, making it the largest network in the region.
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You had incredible sacrifices by Quakers who were willing to put their very lives at risk to help build coalitions with black slaves and escaped slaves to build the Underground Railroad.
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As for the notion that passengers on the Underground Railroad communicated with one another by means of quilts: that idea originated, without any evident basis, in the eighties (the nineteen -eighties).
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For example, photographer Dawoud Bey's exhibition, Night Coming Tenderly, Black, at the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year, depicted underground railroad landscapes as if from fugitive slaves' points of view.
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Though the city is filled with people of color (including many important NPCs), the only sign of the sort of racism that Lovecraft himself practiced is a memorial to the Underground Railroad.
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The grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center is an opportunity for a fractured nation to find a common vision around the ideals of freedom which the heroine embodies.
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The museum, which is not at all underground—the name evokes the strength and the resistance of the Underground Railroad—was founded, in 2012, by an artist couple: Noah and Karon Davis.
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Some of those books are unquestionably trendy — The Underground Railroad has Oprah's seal of approval — but I also make time to read things that aren't on the unwritten required-reading list. Mrs.
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JOHN LEGEND The Underground Railroad is something we've all heard about, but to explore it in this way — through a really powerful and really well-written television show — was irresistible to me.
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He's a budding abolitionist, and soon he and his wife, Elizabeth (Jessica De Gouw), are into the cause with both feet, their house being well situated for use in the Underground Railroad.
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At the moment the stack includes "Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders; "Embattled Rebel" by James M. McPherson; "Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead; and "Race and Reunion" by David W. Blight.
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Midwestern artist Jeanine Michna-Bales' latest photo series, Through Darkness to Light, is the result of 14 years of research and 1,23 miles of travel along former routes of the Underground Railroad.
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Bey is currently working on a new series in Cleveland, and is this time eyeing the landscape to bring out its histories as a player in the system of the Underground Railroad.
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WASHINGTON — Harriet Tubman — former slave, abolitionist, "conductor" on the Underground Railroad — will not become the face of the $20 bill until after President Trump leaves office, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday.
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"One thing that really surprised me was how few Columbians were actually involved in fighting against slavery," said Mr. Foner, whose most recent book is about the Underground Railroad in New York.
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Not long after that strange, exhilarating, unprecedented night, Jenkins's next project was announced: an adaptation, for Amazon, of Colson Whitehead's novel "The Underground Railroad," which just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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The book's author says he is 'appalled and disgusted' Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" tells the story of Cora, who escapes from a Georgia plantation and heads on a perilous journey toward freedom.
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I flashed on Colson Whitehead's novel "The Underground Railroad," which literalizes the network of safe houses and routes used by enslaved black Americans, turning it into a fantastical subterranean passageway to freedom.
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Starring as Rosalee, a house slave on a plantation in 1857, Smollett-Bell is the heart and soul behind WGN America's brand new series Underground, which tells gripping story of the Underground Railroad.
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The Pulitzer comes after The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award, after it was selected for Oprah's Book Club, and after Moonlight director Barry Jenkins signed on to adapt it for television.
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Paul Beatty's The Sellout, Claudia Rankine's Citizen, and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad are all still outliers in America's mostly white publishing culture, but they also seem like signs of things to come.
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Connected to the nurses that worked on the Underground Railroad and in the tents of the Black Panthers, Leigh's project draws from history in order to build a strong proposal for the future.
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Tubman then undertook a series of 70-odd rescues, ushering slaves to freedom as a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, a covert network of byways and safe houses running through 14 northern states.
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The comedian Amy Schumer's "The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo" debuts at No. 1 on our hardcover nonfiction best-seller list, while Colson Whitehead's "Underground Railroad" sits atop our hardcover fiction rankings.
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Early the next morning, cool and foggy in the mountains, Mr. Herrou and some volunteers in his underground railroad traded tips on which Riviera train station would be best to slip through. Antibes?
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There are hints at the social context of the 1840s United States, with one task from your friend A. Bronson Alcott being to leave clothes for a man fleeing on the Underground Railroad.
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In a sense, "The Underground Railroad" is Whitehead's own attempt at getting things right, not by telling us what we already know but by vindicating the powers of fiction to interpret the world.
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By deploying darkness in each of her photographs, she stages a reckoning with actual and imagined Underground Railroad sites while also calling attention to how critical Black geographies are often eclipsed from view.
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"Go Down, Moses," based on Old Testament stories of Moses freeing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, was even reportedly used by Harriet Tubman as a code song while operating the Underground Railroad.
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I won't say more about what happens, except to note that we learn of a sort of underground railroad, a community of people who help immigrants escape the clutches of the security state.
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The series "Transparent" is already a major hit, and the company just struck a deal to adapt Colson Whitehead's novel, "The Underground Railroad," into a film directed by the Oscar winner Barry Jenkins.
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A permanent museum exhibit, featuring items like an 1897 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and maps of Underground Railroad routes from Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee, is on the ground floor.
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The Underground Railroad, by contrast, was personal: a scattering of private citizens, acting on conscience, and connected for the most part only as the constellations are—from a great distance, by their light.
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Is it really surprising that the federal government would want to replace this man with someone who helped lead the Underground Railroad to free slaves and later fought for women's right to vote?
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Take the Harriet Tubman ragout, a brown beef stew simmered in peanut oil with potatoes, carrots, onions, turnips, and okra, just as her Uncle Costen told her it was served in the Underground Railroad.
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The network was set up by Korean pastors inspired by the Underground Railroad, the secret passages enslaved African-Americans used to escape to free states from the late 1700s until the American Civil War.
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The 'Underground Railroad' The high stakes risks that come with getting caught mean activists and rescuers work extremely carefully to get defectors out of China, and the secrecy of the underground network is paramount.
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He seemingly stumbles across film of the Order gathering under AP, where they've decorated the walls with Xs. This is the same spot that, according to Joelle, was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Two weeks ago, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad was released with the blessing of Oprah Winfrey's semi-dormant Book Club—and those familiar with the author's work couldn't help but chuckle at the occurrence.
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He's reportedly working with Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman on a 1970s plane hijacking thriller, turning The Underground Railroad into an Amazon series, and still trying to catch up on some iconic 90s rom-coms.
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Rosenbluth mentioned concerns about an "underground railroad" at the hearing on Tuesday, as she crafted conditions of Ahn's release - such as not contacting Hong - which she said were intended to keep him from fleeing.
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It's revealed that the handmaid's tale we just read was originally discovered as a set of audio cassette tapes, hidden in a location on the underground railroad that smuggled women out of the country.
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The winner of the National Book Award for fiction was Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which reimagines the historical flight of escaped slaves from the antebellum South as taking place on a literal train.
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Moonlight's director, Barry Jenkins—the man Chazelle literally had to hand the Best Picture Oscar over to—has signed on to write and direct an upcoming TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.
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And when Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which allowed authorities in non-slave states to capture and return escaped slaves to their owners, Tubman helped reroute the Underground Railroad to Canada.
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When Michna-Bales conceived of this series more than ten years ago, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center had not yet been created, and the Freedom Trails Initiative had not yet passed by Congress.
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Likewise, South African photographer and activist Zanele Muholi is indisputably documentary in her work, presenting a series of portraits of LGBTI individuals in her vast personal network at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
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THE WRITER'S WRITERColson Whitehead won the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and a Pulitzer for "The Underground Railroad," a high-concept imagining of an actual underground route of escape for 19th century slaves.
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Toward the end of the Obama administration, the Treasury Department recommended that President Andrew Jackson's portrait on the $6900 bill be replaced with one of Harriet Tubman, a black leader in the Underground Railroad.
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The novel adds elements of fantasy by creating a literal version of the Underground Railroad, a system of safe houses and routes used to smuggle slaves to freedom in the early- to mid-1800s.
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There are many games that already do this: Academy Games' Freedom: The Underground Railroad confronts the terrible struggle to help slaves escape in the United States, ultimately teaching you that you can't save everyone.
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Back in August, we did one these special sections in the paper of an excerpt of a then-brand-new novel, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, which went on to win the National Book Award.
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You see this, for example, in the way the Underground Railroad story of Canada as a safe haven is repeated often and well known, while the fact that slavery existed in Canada is virtually unknown.
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Barry Jenkins, fresh off his triumphant Best Picture Oscar win for Moonlight, has signed on to write and direct an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's popular award-winning novel, The Underground Railroad, Amazon Studios announced Monday.
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"Outside of the Underground Railroad story, which has a fair amount of mythologizing around it, Canadians do not know about black Canadian history," said Barrington Walker, a history professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
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The opening event will take place on April 16 at the Cooper Union's Great Hall, with Mr. Whitehead, Leila Slimani and Maxine Beneba Clarke, who will discuss the underground railroad, immigration and the refugee crisis.
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But "The Appointment," created by a four-member writing team led by Alice Yorke and directed by Eva Steinmetz, made me feel just as uneasy, offended, engrossed and, finally, enlightened as "Underground Railroad Game" had.
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For now, another high-powered visit from the past, this one from 2016, when Colson Whitehead spoke about "The Underground Railroad," which ended up as one of the Book Review's 10 Best Books that year.
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Read: "The Nickel Boys," Colson Whitehead's first novel since "The Underground Railroad," was inspired by the real-life story of a reform school in Florida where more than 100 children died from 1913 to 1960.
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A music review on Tuesday about "Kathleen Battle: Underground Railroad — A Spiritual Journey" at the Metropolitan Opera, which included readings, misidentified the source of the words by Sojourner Truth that were read by Cicely Tyson.
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Michelle Arnosky Sherburne, author of a new book, "Slavery & the Underground Railroad in New Hampshire," has uncovered hundreds of ads published in Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as anecdotes about white residents helping runaway slaves.
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We will never understand the experiences of those forced to flee to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad, but Michna-Bales's series channels the emotions that ran through its routes through subtle but powerful visuals.
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But the two words are not mutually exclusive on "Underground," WGN America's new series about a group of enslaved men and women who embark on a harrowing escape from a Georgia plantation via the Underground Railroad.
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The Robinsons, devout Quakers and uncompromising abolitionists, ran a Merino sheep farm and orchard here, and joined a network of Northerners that helped form the Underground Railroad, aiding enslaved African-Americans in their quest for freedom.
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Trump administration: Harriet Tubman — former slave, abolitionist, "conductor" on the Underground Railroad — was set to go on the $20 bill, but that plan will be postponed until after President Trump leaves office, the Treasury secretary said.
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Today, little visual evidence remains of the Underground Railroad, an antebellum network of secret routes and safe houses, maintained by brave black and white "conductors," which facilitated the escape of slaves to free states and Canada.
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But Ms. Magar, who has shone as a director of genre-bending works like "Is God Is" and "Underground Railroad Game," keeps the more conventional machinery of "The Great Leap" moving at a well-oiled pace.
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Timelines were conflated (the Fugitive Slave Act, for instance, was passed within months after Tubman's escape, not after she had already become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, as in the film) and characters were created.
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It's possible to live in New York City for many years and not know about this historic Brooklyn house, whose earliest section dates to 22, and which may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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A white couple hides them in a dark chamber beneath a bedroom floor, where they stay for hours, cramped and hidden, like passengers on an underground railroad, cargo packed in the dark hold of a ship.
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She made multiple trips back to the South, however, and freed hundreds of others, becoming an instrumental figure in the Underground Railroad, a network of people who offered shelter to those traveling north to escape enslavement.
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No one disputes that white abolitionists were active in the Underground Railroad, but later scholars argued that Siebert had exaggerated both their numbers and their importance, while downplaying or ignoring the role played by African-Americans.
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The novelist Colson Whitehead deploys the counternarrative to great effect in "The Underground Railroad" — winner of the 2016 National Book Award — by subverting the shiny, optimistic escape-to-freedom story as it is so often told.
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Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad — about a woman escaping from slavery, with just a hint of magical realism — has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which means Colson Whitehead is having a very good year indeed.
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He kicks up a conversational firestorm, racing from topic to topic, showing the same fervent interest in a controversial dam project as in his home suburb's connection to the Underground Railroad and the future of the West.
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America's history of slavery is often misunderstood and unrecognized, but WGN's new series Underground is changing that as the first scripted drama to tell one of the many stories of people escaping slavery through the Underground Railroad.
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While "The Word" did not show how well Rita covered her tracks after leading June out through whatever underground railroad system the Marthas have created, I know what kind of punishment awaits her if she is discovered.
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Though hers is one of the most notable names associated with the network of secret routes and safe homes that helped escaped slaves flee the South, Tubman did not invent the Underground Railroad, as is sometimes reported.
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For Scott Sheppard, a creator of a new play called "Underground Railroad Game," the real game it's based on was one of those childhood experiences that seem normal at the time, but weird, even horrifying, in retrospect.
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THE ARTS A music review on Tuesday about "Kathleen Battle: Underground Railroad — A Spiritual Journey" at the Metropolitan Opera, which included readings, misidentified the source of the words by Sojourner Truth that were read by Cicely Tyson.
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Bradberry's mother grew up in Auburn, New York, and as a boy, he would hear references to another Auburn resident — Harriet Tubman, one of the most famous conductors who led people to safety on the Underground Railroad.
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Replacing Jackson with Tubman would have been particularly appropriate, some activists argue, because it replaces a slavery proponent with the nation's most famous abolitionist and former slave who led other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
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Lightning Rod Special is the Philadelphia-based company that gave us "Underground Railroad Game," a show that used a middle-school classroom format to dive deep, really deep, into the emotional and sexual dynamics of interracial relationships.
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She ran a stop on the Underground Railroad that sheltered runaway slaves, discovered iron ore on her property and created a serious mining operation, educated her four daughters and churned nearly 300 pounds of butter a year.
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And of course nearby Cincinnati has no shortage of sites to visit, like the Harriett Beecher Stowe House, or the fantastic National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, stocked with a replica of a slave cabin and immersive programming.
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PARIS — A French farmer who smuggled African migrants to safety, defying the authorities in an effort that his supporters likened to the Underground Railroad, was essentially given a slap on the wrist by a court on Friday.
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Underground Railroad Game demonstrates that more than being convoluted, desire is also fugitive, appearing here in a treasured photograph, winking out and reappearing in fetishized objects, or in the naughty games of power and dominance we play.
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The film will tell the story of Tubman's extraordinary life, from her escape from slavery in 1849 to her heroic navigation of the Underground Railroad, which was used to free dozens of slaves amid a brewing civil war.
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It's about a slave woman named Cora who's trying to escape the antebellum South on the Underground Railroad — only here, the railroad is a literal railroad, and as Cora travels across state lines, she's also traveling through time.
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Kasi Lemmons, an actor and director who most recently was behind an episode of Luke Cage, is directing this tense-looking biopic about Harriet Tubman that turns her work on the Underground Railroad into a borderline action movie.
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From BET's Rebel to Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Underground Railroad, popular culture has taken notice of the Black Lives Matter movement and the ongoing discussions about black bodies, often using it as a plot device.
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It's a version of a spiritual symbol from West Africa, a Kongo cosmogram, but it had another function, allowing escaped slaves concealed beneath the floor, to breathe as the church was also a stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Installed in St. John's Episcopal Church, a stop on the Underground Railroad known as Station Hope, it summons a time in African-American history when the journey to freedom was made largely through the shadows of the night.
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The focus of the program was the Underground Railroad, the secret network of "conductors" and "pilots" who, at enormous risk, helped thousands of slaves in the South find safe havens and nighttime routes to freedom in the North.
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The family came from six generations of teachers and Episcopal ministers on his mother's side (one of whom operated the Underground Railroad in St. Louis, helping slaves flee their masters) and many social workers on his father's side.
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The exact number is unknown because successful passage on the Underground Railroad meant it was undocumented, Dewey Scott, a docent at the John P. Parker House in Ripley, pointed out when I took a tour there in December.
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Consider a pink tomato called Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad, which is said to have been carried by a slave, his name lost to history, who won his freedom as he escaped out of Kentucky and into Ripley, Ohio.
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The resulting history, published in 1898 and entitled "The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom," depicted a network of more than three thousand anti-slavery activists, most of them white, who helped ferry largely anonymous runaways to freedom.
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For as many conflicts as there are raging around the concept of plantations, the burgeoning Underground Railroad, and what it means to be a freed slave, Underground depicts just as many within the microcosm of the Macon plantation.
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Although narcolepsy didn't exist as a diagnosis during her lifetime, the most famous person in history with narcoleptic symptoms was the Underground Railroad conductor and Civil War scout Harriet Tubman, who believed God spoke to her through her hallucinations.
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Lawrence made a splash in season 2 by helping Emily (Alexis Bledel) escape Gilead through an underground railroad run by the resistance, revealing that he's one of the most powerful figures working to take down the society he created.
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The National Book Award for Fiction hasn't had a frontrunner as frontrunner-y as Whitehead's The Underground Railroad in a long time, which is not only a consensus critics' choice, but a rare Oprah's Book Club pick as well.
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It's a fairly, uh, safe bet that you will find yourself tempted to cry "Sojourner" on many occasions before the end of "Underground Railroad Game," the in-all-ways sensational play that opened on Monday night at Ars Nova.
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Buy it here >>Having earned a Pulitzer and a National Book Award with his last novel, "The Underground Railroad," Colson Whitehead follows up with a story about two young black men sent to the infamous Nickel Academy in Florida.
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As the New York story was unfolding in March, an elementary school in Wilmington, North Carolina, was making headlines for having students play a "monopoly-like" role-playing game called "Escaping Slavery" to teach students about the Underground Railroad.
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The past few months have brought numerous examples of teachers using highly questionable lessons — like mock slave auctions and Underground Railroad games — to teach students about the history of slavery in the US. But these stories are hardly new.
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The show is still an easy-to-consume hour of travel with unusual food, but now Mr. Zimmern walks more directly into cultural issues like race in America, which he did in a recent episode about the Underground Railroad.
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"But at the same time this was a landscape of horror," she said, drawing the connection to the contemporaneous struggle for emancipation as enslaved people moved through America's immense land on the underground railroad, charting another kind of migration.
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He and other abolitionists, black and white, established the nearby Dawn settlement as a refuge for Underground Railroad immigrants, and also for free African-Americans who could no longer live in a place that was hostile to black freedom.
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As part of Black History Month, students in grades three to five at Madison's Trust Elementary in Brambleton took part in an activity about the Underground Railroad that required them to overcome a physical obstacle, the school district said.
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There are a ton of recurring players, between the Macons who own the cotton plantation, the frustrated allies trying to make the Underground Railroad work, and hungry hunters like Christopher Meloni's August Pullman who turn runaway slaves into profit.
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The book also takes a broader view, exploring how these slaves and their allies in the Underground Railroad, while small in number, powerfully shaped national politics, playing a major role in sectional conflict and the coming of the Civil War.
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There are two basic sleights of hand underlying this series of photographs by Dawoud Bey: one, that the landscape might have appeared like this to one fleeing a former master by way of the Underground Railroad in the well of night.
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It is not clear whether this is part of a larger crackdown by China, but activists say the raids have disrupted parts of the informal network of brokers, charities, and middlemen who have been dubbed the North Korean "Underground Railroad".
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" Thoreau, a committed abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad, denounced the American government's tolerance of the institution of slavery, as well as "the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool.
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In another cringe-worthy episode, it was revealed during a historical tour of Savannah, Ga., that Porsha Williams, a granddaughter of the civil rights activist Hosea Williams, believed that the Underground Railroad had been a literal train, on railroad tracks.
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In addition to its connection to the witch trials, the house is thought to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad and once housed Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt&aposs son when he lived nearby.
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The president's other picks included the Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" by William Finnegan, "The Underground Railroad," by Colson Whitehead, "H Is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald and "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins.
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At first blush, The Underground Railroad, one of the most acclaimed books of the year, winner of the National Book Award, and a surefire future fixture in literature courses, would seem to have little in common with a TV comedy.
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Where, for example, is the big-budget biopic about Harriet Tubman, who was not only instrumental in helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, but during the Civil War actually led a military expedition that freed more than 700 slaves?
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Presenting these subjects obscured by night might seem antithetical to the artist's explicit aim in this project, which is to provide a visual account of the Underground Railroad, about which much has been written, but little has been visually documented.
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She would later come to be known for her work guiding enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, a loosely connected network of abolitionists who monitored safe houses where fugitives were sheltered on their journey north to free states.
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Mac explains the legend of the one-legged sailor who sings coded language to slaves in order to direct them to freedom via the Underground Railroad, while noting the absurdity of a 19th-century mariner spending his time wandering around plantations.
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His research led him to the more rustic town of Hudson, Ohio, 30 miles southeast of the city, with areas of landscape that are little changed from the years before the Civil War and where several Underground Railroad stations remain.
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Refugees in America Recent chaos in the American political system has effectively drowned out stories of courage like the ones that Jake Halpern tells about Vive, a refugee safe house in upstate New York ("A New Underground Railroad," March 13th).
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John Walls purchased 20 acres from the Refugee Home Society, which sold land at a low cost to African-American Underground Railroad immigrants, and built a log cabin, established a small farm, and, with his wife, charted a life of freedom.
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Harriet, written by Howard and directed by Kasi Lemmons, stars Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, the slave-turned-abolitionist who led 203 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, spied for the Union Army, and even led soldiers in raids.
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Schulz's focus on European-American conductors of the Underground Railroad overlooks some of the most important people in this process: Maroons, the African-Americans who, against all odds and legal barriers, extricated themselves from enslavement and formed self-reliant resistance communities.
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Over the next couple of weekends, I'm visiting what remains of two Underground Railroad stations, ruins and relics of black resistance to enslavement: Prospect Bluff, along the Apalachicola River, just a few miles away, and Fort Mose in St. Augustine.
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The story of the Underground Railroad is illuminated through a traditional New York City oyster pan roast inspired by Thomas Downing, the son of freed slaves who opened a popular oyster restaurant on Broad Street in Manhattan in the early 1800s.
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For one thing, far from being centrally organized, the Underground Railroad was what we might today call an emergent system: it arose through the largely unrelated actions of individuals and small groups, many of whom were oblivious of one another's existence.
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Reverend Toller, played with chilling, muted, disintegrating fury by Hawke, is the minister of a small church maintained more for its historical significance — once a stop on the Underground Railroad, it's about to celebrate its 250th anniversary — than its thriving ministry.
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When a books earns as much recognition as Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad has — it won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, which hasn't happened since 1994, plus Oprah digs it — people start talking about it in terms of duty.
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Harriet Tubman – the 203th century abolitionist and suffragist who led dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad to free states – is about to become the new face of the $220 bill, replacing slaveholder Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
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Harriet Tubman – the 19th century abolitionist and suffragist who led dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad to free states – is about to become the new face of the $20 bill, replacing slaveholder Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
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The black and white photographs I am looking at in the Art Institute of Chicago that are all created around Cleveland and Hudson, Ohio, are meant to represent the stations, the properties and areas said to have constituted stops along the Underground Railroad.
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In "General Moses (Harriet Tubman)," the famous abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad rests against a massive boulder, regally posed and staring back as if in waiting for those in the future to catch up with the scope of her vision.
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The amendment would have nullified the Treasury Department's plans to replace the current image of Jackson on the $20 bill with a portrait of Tubman, one of the most prominent abolitionists for her work in the Underground Railroad during the Civil War.
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If his amendment goes through, it would quash the plan to replace Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president and a slaveholder, with Tubman, a black woman born into slavery who led dozens of former slaves to free states through the Underground Railroad.
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He came up through the underground railroad as a runaway slave from Kentucky around the 1850's or maybe prior, and came through the border near Windsor...farther north and settled south of Owen Sound called Holland's Place- its called Chatsworth now.
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"Harriet" isn't an immersion in horror like Steve McQueen's 'Twelve Years a Slave,' and it doesn't have the imaginative sweep and complexity of literary depictions of slavery like Edward P. Jones's 'The Known World,' Colson Whitehead's 'Underground Railroad,' or Toni Morrison's 'Beloved.
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He kept slaves on his Detroit River islands, which included Belle Isle (the current city park) and Grosse Isle, and right in the heart of the city, not far from where the International Underground Railroad Memorial now rises above the river view.
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The series, a product of 14 years of research and over 1,400-miles traversed by Michna-Bales herself, represents an attempt to consider the journey of the Underground Railroad from the perspective of those who walked it for a chance at freedom.
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The outrage that pulses through this show has the same historical source as Scott Sheppard and Jennifer Kidwell's "Underground Railroad Game"; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's "An Octoroon"; and works by Suzan-Lori Parks, including "Venus," though "3/Fifths" is less accomplished as drama.
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Bishop Willis Nazery, an early leader of British Methodist Episcopal congregations, was also a conductor in the Underground Railroad, and the church was used as a rest stop for escaped slaves as many continued inland to locales like North Buxton and Chatham-Kent.
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They are white, and gruesomely so; Graham idly imagines he "would have made an excellent owner of a safe house in the Underground Railroad," while Audra makes a special, alarming point of telling a black store clerk what a great job he's doing.
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The history of New York's Underground Railroad — the financial and physical ramifications of enslavement here, the streets we walk on every day and the bodies that built them — is a narrative we all need to know as we move toward this country's future.
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Behind the Mask covers a time period between 2008-2012 wherein X joins Anonymous, quickly rises to a position of influence in the decentralized organization, gets the attention of the FBI Cyber Division, and escapes the US on an underground railroad of his own design.
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Journey to the south Korean pastors have set up a network of routes and safe houses in China inspired by the Underground Railroad, the secret passages enslaved African-Americans used to escape to free states from the late 1700s until the US Civil War.
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The internal watchdog at the Treasury Department will investigate the department's controversial decision to delay redesigning the $20163 bill with a portrait of Harriet Tubman, a former slave who helped liberate dozens of other slaves on the Underground Railroad, according to a letter released Monday.
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She always felt it was important that we knew our history and understood who we were, even at a young age; it was at those exhibits that I got my earliest education on everything from the Underground Railroad to the life of Billie Holiday.
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The Friends New Underground Railroad, a Quaker group that sprang up in Washington state to help ferry vulnerable LGBT Ugandans to safety, says it helped more than 1,300 such people escape to neighboring countries, to Europe, to the Middle East, and even to North America.
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Beginning in mid-March, they'll spend a year volunteering with Operation Underground Railroad, hoping to comfort children who have been rescued from sex trafficking and have no homes to return to because they were either sold as sex slaves or their families have moved away.
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The only reason Kurt didn't send the invite to the Dear Black People party himself is because his father found out, and he thinks the lawn jockey in blackface that he put on the cover of Pastiche was a safehouse signal during the Underground railroad.
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"The Underground Railroad," the latest selection of Oprah Winfrey's book club, chronicles the life of a teenage slave named Cora, who flees the Georgia plantation where she was born, risking everything in pursuit of freedom, much the way her mother, Mabel, did years before.
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And these surreal elements inject the narrative with a mythic dimension that lends "The Underground Railroad" more magic and depth of field than Yaa Gyasi's ambitious but methodical novel, "Homegoing," which recently looked at the damage slavery inflicted on eight generations of one family.
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Young visitors can learn how she led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad and became the only woman to lead a military operation during the Civil War: the Combahee River Raid in South Carolina, which freed some 700 slaves in 1863.212-873-3400, nyhistory.
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Yet for all of their history of tolerance and agitation for the Union's side in the war, their heritage as a stop on the Underground Railroad, the town of Gilead is not going to be ready for Jack Boughton to bring home his black family.
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His barber shop was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and both he and his wife, who was likely African American, dedicated themselves to championing the abolitionist cause, said Stuart Johnson, president of the Aaron Burr Association and a descendent of Aaron Burr's first cousin.
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The mayor's planned Central Park monument will celebrate the heroic Lyons family, charter members of the New York City free black elite who owned land in Seneca Village and ran a stop on the Underground Railroad in Manhattan that sheltered hundreds of escapees from slavery.
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The Ripley chain included John Rankin, a clergyman who hosted the refugees and is the town's best-known participant in the Underground Railroad; his house, which has been restored and is open to the public, sits on a large hill now named for him.
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Thomas Downing was the son of freed slaves who became an oysterman in New York in the early 1800s and went on to operate one of the plushest oyster restaurants in New York, join the Underground Railroad and help form the city's antislavery society.
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While the process includes the reclaiming of treasures and autonomy, the colony's un-doing, as my parents would say, is also an act self-liberation — not unlike what propelled the Underground Railroad, as Dawoud Bey, MacArthur Genius Fellow and photographer, recently explained to me.
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On a recent visit to the galleries with Bey, a museum guest, recognizing the artist, approached to offer congratulations before going on to profess, "As a white man, I know all about the Underground Railroad…" I walked away without hearing the end of the sentence.
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But during the Sunshine Policy era (1998 to 2008), which saw a rapprochement between Seoul and Pyongyang, several refugees were deported to North Korea from the Shenyang consulate, according to the book "Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad" by Melanie Kirkpatrick.
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Now here comes Colson Whitehead (bestselling author of Zone One and Sag Harbor) and with an extraordinary new take: What if the Underground Railroad physically existed – as a vast labyrinth of secret tunnels that ran north right under the noses of slave-owners and slave-catchers?
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"It's like the underground railroad, only that it's digital," says Maurice Stierl of Watch The Med, an NGO that tracks the deaths and hardships of migrants who cross the Mediterranean, referring to the secret routes and safe houses used to free American slaves in the 20153th century.
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In his previous novel, "The Underground Railroad", which won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award, the escape route of the title magically becomes an actual railway; what begins as an unblinking depiction of slavery morphs into a phantasmagoric allegory of African-American history as a whole.
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She's popularly known in U.S. history for the nearly two dozen runs she made along the so-called "Underground Railroad" (neither underground, nor a railroad, but a series of safe houses and individuals sympathetic to slaves), helping slaves escape to freedom in the northern U.S. or Canada.
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The limited series, slated to run in hour-long episodes on the streaming service, will follow Whitehead's original story about Cora, a young girl born into slavery who decides to escape her Georgia plantation using the underground railroad—an actual train network that will shuttle her northward.
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Her achievements are herculean: an escaped slave herself, she was instrumental in organizing the Underground Railroad, and would help ferry hundreds of people to freedom; later, she was a well-known abolitionist speaker, and even served as a scout for the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Booths include stories on gay rights, the nation's Japanese internment camps during World War II, the reclamation of land by the aboriginal Inuit, the Underground Railroad and a devastating film on residential schools that shows former Prime Minister Stephen Harper making an official apology in 2008.
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While Turner's rebellion and some other revolts failed to give slaves the new life they fought for, the development of the Underground Railroad — which, of course, was neither underground nor a railroad — helped tens of thousands of escaped slaves from the South reach safety up North.
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Crespo, who is Latino, said that he had grown up with African-Americans in the Roxbury section of Boston, but that he had known little about Frederick Douglass, the Underground Railroad or the role of Boston's black citizens in the abolitionist movement and the Civil War.
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Ever since August Belmont Jr. arranged the financing for a four-track "underground railroad" more than a century ago, the subway has fueled New York City's economy, delivering workers from homes in distant neighborhoods to jobs in Manhattan and enriching landlords and real estate developers near stations.
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His mother was a founder of the Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society; his older sister, Helen, was a friend of Frederick Douglass; the family home, where, aside from two years at Walden, he lived till he died, was a stop on the Underground Railroad to Canada.
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But, as more recent work has made clear, they should also incite our curiosity and skepticism: about how the Underground Railroad really worked, why stories about it so consistently work on us, and what they teach us—or spare us from learning—about ourselves and our nation.
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But except for the bad guys, who go out in a blazing gun battle, the characters are too good to be true, from Snow's sainted godmother and a priest who operates an underground railroad to Snow himself, who could use a few flaws to make him human.
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Summer's high tide of visitors largely supports the proliferation of independent shops and restaurants in Petoskey, where one of the typically literate salespeople at McLean & Eakin Booksellers spent 10 minutes extolling "The Sellout" by Paul Beatty when he learned I'd loved "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead.
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Only three (less than 2%) are dedicated to historic female figures: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park in Maryland, the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument in the District of Columbia, and the Rose Atoll in the US territory of American Samoa, named for a female explorer.
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We know what a sitcom or a thriller is supposed to look like, but when Atlanta or The Underground Railroad leave that safety behind, via the deliberate upending of surrealism, we start to glimpse even deeper truths and maybe we start to understand, if only a little bit.
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Biggers has worked with quilts before — as in his 2015 solo show Matter (also at David Castillo) and his 2013 exhibition Ago, at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago — to reference the antebellum South and the idea that quilts were used to discretely map safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.
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When the gale force winds of media coverage hit us yet again, many of us just push our roots deeper into the soil of this campus, made sacred by the college being a site on the Underground Railroad and by innumerable lives of faithfulness nurtured in this place.
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Eric Foner, the author most recently of "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad," said he wished the show had complicated its populist portrait by noting Hamilton's elitism and dedication to property rights, which were "more important to him" than fighting slavery, Mr. Foner said.
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The John Legend-produced show — beloved for showcasing multiple perspectives of slaves and freed Blacks involved with the Underground Railroad with empathetic writing and gorgeous cinematography — was dropped by the network this month when it was bought by Sinclair Broadcast Group, who seek to go in a different direction.
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Harriet Tubman, the African-American abolitionist and humanitarian who escaped from slavery and helped over 26 slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the front of a new $20 note, while Alexander Hamilton will remain on the front of the $10 bill.
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More than half a century later, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History — now a 120,000-square-foot facility on East Warren Avenue — owns 35,000-plus artifacts and archival materials, as well as the Blanche Coggin Underground Railroad Collection and Harriet Tubman Museum Collection, among others.
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But in these remote mountain valleys, where Jews fleeing the Nazis and the Vichy collaborators found refuge during World War II, Mr. Herrou has become something of a folk hero by leading a kind of loosely knit underground railroad to smuggle migrants north, many destined for Britain or Germany.
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"We haven't made any decisions as to whether we'll change the bill, or won't change the bill," he said during a January 2018 onstage interview at the Economic Club of Washington when asked whether he'd follow through on an Obama administration plan to honor the Underground Railroad hero.
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One way he does this, formally, is in repurposing antique quilts, which were signposts used on the Underground Railroad and have been central more recently in Southern African-American collectives like Gee's Bend, whose work, for many, created a link between African textile patterns and modern European abstract painting.
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But Whitehead isn't your run of the mill novelist, black or otherwise; The Underground Railroad is the type of slavery novel in which the Misfits get thanked in the acknowledgements, and the book has a driving, propulsive energy that keeps you jumping up and down even if you aren't at CBGBs.
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The book has already sold more than 850,000 copies and garnered the praise of the Moonlight director, whose production company, PASTEL, will also produce the film alongside Brad Pitt's company, Plan B. "Colson's writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different," Jenkins said in a press release.
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Best in Theaters Now: "Harriet" You may have (hopefully) learned a bit about Harriet Tubman in your high school history lessons — the heroic slave-turned-abolitionist whose dangerous missions led to the liberation of hundreds of enslaved African Americans via the Underground Railroad, but you've never seen her like this.
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Books of The Times In his dynamic new novel, Colson Whitehead takes the Underground Railroad — the loosely interlocking network of black and white activists who helped slaves escape to freedom in the decades before the Civil War — and turns it from a metaphor into an actual train that ferries fugitives northward.
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Three widely discussed books on the 13-book longlist, announced July 2003 — Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in the United States, Arundhati Roy's "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" and Zadie Smith's "Swing Time" — did not make the cut on Wednesday.
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The church was one of the last stops on the Underground Railroad where escaped slaves hid in the belfry awaiting the signal from boats to Canada, and it provided a departure point for the artist to reimagine the landscape from the perspective of fugitives moving through Ohio to Lake Erie.
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Some of the photographs, such as "Decision to Leave," which features Magnolia Plantation in Cane River, Louisiana, and "Look for the Gray Barn Out Back," shot in Centerville, Indiana, feature actual sites still in operation today or places confirmed by the current occupants as former stops on the Underground Railroad.
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Pub date: June 4 A fitting follow-up to his brutal, Pulitzer Prize–winning depiction of slavery in The Underground Railroad, Whitehead turns again to America's grimmest archives, with a fictional account of a real-life Florida reform school, infamous for torturing its poor black students during the 1960s civil rights movement.
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A few examples, which dip into spoiler territory: androids are required to stand at the back of public buses; there's an underground railroad where humans sneak androids across the border to liberation in Canada; and when things get really bad androids are forced into internment camps and the huddled masses are executed.
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And as always, we close the show with recommendations: George has a host of book recommendations including: Moonglow by Michael Chebon, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, Swingtime by Zadie Smith and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer.
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Congressman John Lewis's March: Book Three won for Young People's Literature; Daniel Borzutzky's The Performance of Becoming Human won for Poetry; Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America took home the Nonfiction prize; while Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad won in the Fiction category.
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"We're so proud of the success the first season was able to achieve," Legend, 38, says of the action-packed series that dramatizes American slavery and the real life efforts of Harriet Tubman and fellow abolitionists who risked their lives to bring southern slaves to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad.
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Their great great grandfather, Earl was born a slave in Kentucky in 1833 who would cross through the Underground Railroad up north to Chatsworth, Ontario as a free man making the Blackburns part of a long line of African-Canadians in the country—otherwise, the first blacks to take resident in Canada.
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The Loudoun NAACP, on the other hand, argued that even without the instruction, the intent of the game was obvious: Given that the Underground Railroad was used to help enslaved people escape to the North, the majority of students going through the obstacle course would clearly be role-playing as enslaved people.
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When considering the administration's rhetoric about human trafficking, smuggling rings and the humanitarian benevolence of measures like family separation, which, in the words of John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, deter "movement along this terribly dangerous network," remember that the Underground Railroad was a dangerous network and criminal human smuggling enterprise.
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