How Barry Jenkins Reimagined Slave Narratives in "The Underground Railroad"

'Director Barry Jenkins’s mini-series adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel The Underground Railroad premieres on Amazon Prime. Both the book and the series center around Cora, an enslaved woman who escapes from a plantation in Georgia.  Like the book, the new show depicts the harsh realities of slavery, but also imagines what it would have been like for enslaved people to escape from plantations using a literal underground railway system.  The Takeaway speaks to Robert Daniels, contributing film critic to Polygon, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, about how Jenkins’s achievement compares to previous movies and TV shows set in the Antebellum South.'