THE
UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
FROM PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING
NOVEL TO AMAZON SERIES
All photos courtesy of Amazon except as noted
by Nancy Mills
"Because I am a person of color, working on The Underground
Railroad
meant something more to me than just working for
an Academy Award-winning director," admits veteran LM
Alison Taylor. "In location work, you get very few opportunities
to take a job based on content. I felt that the story was
communicating much more than just history. It was important
to show what the times were like, and what it really felt like
for these enslaved people."
In the 2016 book by Colson Whitehead,
The Underground
Railroad
follows Cora Randall's escape from a Georgia
plantation in the 1850s and her harrowing journey toward
freedom. While historically the underground railroad was a
system of abolitionists, safe houses, and routes to guide
escaped slaves north, Whitehead imagines the railroad as
being real. There are stations, tracks and locomotives. The
screeching roar of metal beneath the southern soil with its
constant rhythmic rumble is a mantra toward the promise of
a be er life.
SLM Alison A. Taylor/LMGI gets on
board with Director Barry Jenkins
for a deeply personal ride…
