It is a fictional piece and nothing like the underground historical railroad. The main actor Cora was the wrong person for the role. Speaks to low, speaks often in a way you can not understand what she is saying and very dragged out sequences. Sometimes hard to understand what is going on in the series and they jump in and out of various weird scenes without any real explanations. Series is very dim light, lighting crew did a worthless job on this flic. Why Ridgeway keeps on hunting her and surviving all kinds of encounters has me clueless. If the actor Cora had some class or anything I would understand. I watched half way through season one and gave up, sorry not my cup of tea.