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A Candid Moment Behind The Scene In Underground Season 2 Episode 7 “28” :

DeWanda Wise as Clara

Amirah Vann as Ernestine

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Underground Season 2 Episode 10 “Soldier” Addressed John Brown’s Secret Six & Future Raid On Harpers Ferry.

Harriet Tubman scene of the episode, as she’s approached by George Stearns, one of Captain John Brown’s “Secret Six.” Apparently word got back to Brown about Harriet’s call to arms during her “Minty” speech, and he has just the idea for the “larger-scale event” (a.k.a. “act of war”) they need — a hit on the weapons arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The plan here (and in history) is for Brown and his men to take control of the arsenal, arming slaves to make them “soldiers in the war that’s been waged against them,” and as dangerous as that idea is, Harriet sees how it could be just what the country needs. So she supports it. That’s before she learns that Brown wants her to be part of the raid though. As for her reaction to that, we’ll just have to wait until next season.

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#ASKUNDERGROUND

A Questionnaire between Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Rosalee &  Aldis Hodge as Noah.

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Underground Season 2 Episode 

“Citizen” (SPOILER) Change is coming. Daniel has moved to Underground’s front lines, intuiting and sleuthing his way to Georgia’s safe house. Not incidentally, John Brown is Kentucky-bound, where masters are selling off slaves deeper south, unaware or uncaring of the upheaval in neighboring states. Patty’s running out of patience with Cato, who pleads with her for a couple more days to prove he can capture the elusive Harriet Tubman. (Significantly, he doesn’t sell out Noah and Rosalee — yet.) And Elizabeth’s lit a fire that she can’t put out, a manifestation of anger derived from, as Cato puts it, knowing “something you can’t un-know.”

“Citizen” zeroes in on the deepening divisions within camps that would broadly take sides in the oncoming Civil War, one of the episode’s clearer metaphors for present day. The other is fear, expressed here as capable of both fueling bigotry and creating a kind of victims’ paralysis. Cato inhales it deeply and then overwhelms his enemies with the monster they created. Georgia is almost superstitiously in awe of it, doing everything she can to seek “a sense of safety that transforms the spirit.” Harriet takes an entirely different tack, explaining her faith in God to Noah by arguing, “Ain’t nothin’ great ever happen based on fear or sense. You gotta be desperate and insane.”

But first, Noah needs to clear the air with Rosalee, who’s been hiding her pregnancy all this time (though it’s fairly shocking that he couldn’t see it with his own eyes), at least until she gathered her family safe and sound. “You was willin’ to sacrifice our family for yours,” he fumes, somehow not stirring James with all his door-slamming. Only hours earlier, he’d told James that being taken from Miss Suzanna made him a man with freedom of choice. Yet reflecting on what he and Rosalee have put themselves through, including watching Bill come within breathing distance of harming his unborn child, he’s in disbelief that Rosalee “treated me like a slave” — just like her father did.

The ghost of Tom Macon has, in many ways, possessed more of the season’s spirit than that of John Hawkes. Though the memory of Elizabeth’s slain husband comes to fore when one of the ruffians who kidnapped her and Lucas in the woods stops by the boarding house to antagonize her. And again when Cato tries to manipulate his way into her sympathies by swapping stories of what brought them to this place of rage and fear. Still, Cato saves Elizabeth’s life when she passes out amid the very blaze she set. His sights, however, remain squarely on Harriet, even as Patty’s gaze is fixed on his manhood  —  one piece of property he’s damn sure she’ll never own  —  as he finishes washing off.

This leaves us with the ruffian’s boy, another innocent victim caught in the crosshairs of an older generation’s fight. After Rosalee accidentally stabbed Ben Pullman in season one, she could hardly speak. But Elizabeth is far from speechless about this kidnapper’s kid, coldly sizing him up as a future chip off the racist block, perhaps not unlike Georgia’s bullying half-brother who likely torments her every time she applies makeup to pass in the mirror. But to Georgia, all Elizabeth’s done is ensure this child will grow up with hate in his heart, perpetuating differences and misunderstandings.

Though she may be surprised to know Harriet isn’t so sure that talks, workshops, and the lessons of Frederick Douglass and William Still are the path to tolerance. In a quiet moment with God en route to Noah and Rosalee, we witness one of her conversations with the almighty, and it is far more direct than divine. She confesses to looking upon her male cohorts as “educated but foolish,” and casting herself as humbled by pride and compromise. Her testimony ties together one of the show’s prominent themes: No single person, perspective, president, or proclamation put an end to legal bondage. The nation was ready for change, regardless of who among its citizens clung to awful comfort. Then as now, America is a fluid idea constantly reshaped by conflict and consolation. As Underground’s characters converge, all that’s left to sort out is who gets torn apart.

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Quotes From Underground Season 2 Episode 7 “28.”  

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Underground Season 2 Episode 7 Review & After Show | AfterBuzz TV

Hosts Elayna Fenelon, LMarie C, Lina Green, and Franceli Chapman discuss Underground for the episode "28."    

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Quotes From Aisha Hinds as Harriet Tubman In Underground Season 2 Episode 6 “Minty.”  

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Well Behave Woman Seldom Make History.

Harriet Tubman was the Underground Railroad’s most famous conductor, revered for her grit, perseverance and unrelenting will to help scores of enslaved people reach freedom. Born a slave, Tubman was a devout Christian who, after escaping herself, risked her life again and again to free her family members and lead anyone willing to journey north across hostile territory to freedom.