Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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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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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.
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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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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 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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She was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
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