Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
AISHA HINDSThe second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
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Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.
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Her spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.
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The second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
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[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
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I almost believe that Harriet Tubman asked God for a leave like, “I’m gonna need to go back down there and take care of some things. They’re in trouble.”
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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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