‘Slave Stealers’: Harriet Jacobs TV Series In The Works From Remi Adeleke, Nick Nanton & Operation Underground Railroad
Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Timothy Ballard’s book Slave Stealers: True Accounts Of Slave Rescues Then & Now is set for TV adaptation with 6 Underground actor and consultant and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke penning the script with Cody Newton (formerly Cody Gifford).Emmy-winning Nick Nanton is directing the first season and will produce, alongside Brian Norton, Adeleke’s StoweAway Productions, and Ballard’s Operation Underground Railroad, the non-profit set up to combat human trafficking.The book follows two real life abolitionists who fought one of the most shockingly persistent evils of the world: human trafficking and sexual exploitation of slaves.