"This is Us" star Sterling K Brown is producing slavery drama "Washington Black" for Hulu.
Based on Esi Edugyan's award-winning novel, the limited series will be adapted for small screen by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds.
According to Variety, the series will follow George Washington Black, an 11-year-old field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee in the company of his master's eccentric inventor brother, Christopher Wilde, after a shocking death threatens to uproot their lives.
They then start off on a globe-trotting adventure with the help of a strange flying machine.
Award-winning director Anthony Hemingway will helm and executive produce. Edugyan and Hinds are on board to executive produce.
"Washington Black" hails from 20th Century Fox TV.
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