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Characters / Carl Ross
3 episodes · 1995

Carl Ross

Carl Ross is the curator of a museum in Chicago. He is also the great-great-grandson of William Ross, who escaped slavery by way of the Underground Railroad. As a boy in Tennessee, William was sold away from his parents, Henry and Caroline, and sent to a plantation in Mississippi. He later fled north - at one point nailed inside a shipping crate and mailed like cargo - and eventually reached freedom in Canada alongside his father. Carl's tie to Odyssey runs through that family history. At Whit's End he uncovered a leather map that William had hidden behind a tunnel beam long ago. In doing so, he revealed that the man who hid it was his own ancestor.

Appearances

3 episodes Art Text No.
3 of 3 0316 The Underground Railroad An enslaved family's desperate flight north along the Underground Railroad tests the limits of faith, sacrifice, and the strangers willing to risk everything to help them.
2 of 3 0315 The Underground Railroad While one fugitive risks everything by mailing himself north in a shipping crate, two others race a relentless slave catcher toward a freedom that a new law may snatch away
1 of 3 0314 The Underground Railroad Told through a curator's discovery of hidden tunnels beneath Whit's End, an enslaved Tennessee family's hope for freedom is tested when a cruel master's spite tears them apart.