The Boardgame Review Room: Freedom - The Underground Railroad - a podcast by Interviews and RPG Publishing advice by Paco García Jaén

Slavery has played a horrific role in the history of many countries for a very,
very long time. Far from being a thing of the past, slavery is still very
present in modern day and efforts to eradicate it continue.

Learning from history is probably the best way to understand where we come
from and where we’re going. Freedom – The Underground Railroad does exactly
that. Taking a massive risk, Academy Games has created a game that explores the
efforts to free slaves.

The players take on the role of historical Abolitionists who will try to save
as many slaves a possible between the 1800’s and the Civil War. A careful
balance between raising funds for the cause and moving the slaves from location
to location will be the key to save enough slaves and win the game. However
every time the slaves are moved, the slave catchers will be alerted and will
capture the slaves to send them back into slavery.

The game has received a great deal of praise and we were very curious to find
out how it worked and if it really is as good as it sounds. This is keeping in
mind that we have a certain Max Murray in our team who doesn’t really like
cooperative games!

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