Race to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad (1994)

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Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad is an American Drama movie released on 1994 and directed by Don McBrearty. A group of slaves risk their lives to get away from their lords with assistance coming from the well known mystery slave  escape network.[1] This movie starring

Plot

Based on the most disturbed and emotional periods in American history comes story of courage and genuine romance that rises above the ages. Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad tells a story of the risky trip of four slaves from a cotton plantation in America to the “Promised Land” in Canada. It is the story of courageous escapees, striking conductors, and a flame in the window; the narrative of the those who took a chance with their lives by  taking charge of their destiny, just to be free.[2]

Anti-Racist

The movie depicts not all the white people is cruel in the civil war era, they can even help the slave to escape. There is a Canadian ornithologist who risk his life, secretly organizes to help the slave. He (white people) is part of The Underground Railroad (a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century) and disguise as abolitionist, he offer help for the slave who wants to escape from the owner plantation. [3] It potrays a few white folks who are willing to risk their lives to help the slaves since they beieve in  the freedom of all people and races.[4]

Black Racism

In this movie the black people be free as a human and never get the equity even in their own country since they are slaves. In 1850, the U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, a law that diminished the general security of the North as a sanctuary for escaped slaves by superseding state laws protecting them. Subsequently, criminal slaves were sought after by abundance trackers everywhere on the United States.[5]. It implies all escaped slaves, upon catch, should be returned back to their lords and that authorities and residents of free states needed to collaborate.[6]

Reference

  1. Race of Freedom. Letterboxd. Retrieved January 25, 2021
  2. Synopsis. Retrieved January 25, 2021
  3. "RACE TO FREEDOM: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" (1994) Review. Oct. 24th, 2014. CTrent29jurnal. Retrieved 25, 2021
  4. Synopsis. Retrieved January 25, 2021
  5. Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad (1994). Retrieved January 25, 2021
  6. Fugitive Slave Act. Battlefields. Retrieved January 25, 2021