Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight, is now bringing Whitehead's brilliant concept to our small screens, adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a sprawling 10-part drama for Amazon. Whitehead's figurative, fantasy railroad features an underground platform accessed through a trapdoor, an elusive, dilapidated box car being pulled across subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, and a semi-mythic conductor on board. In the novel The Underground Railroad, author Colson Whitehead ingeniously makes literal the metaphorical network of the Underground Railroad, the 19th century network of clandestine channels and safe houses created by abolitionists to help free enslaved people from the Deep South into the free states of the North.
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