Freedom Hill | Trailer
Preview: Season 16 Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Princeville, NC, once the all Black town of ‘Freedom Hill,’ faces flooding and erosion.
Princeville, NC sits atop wet, swampy land along the river. In the 1800s, the land was deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed enslaved Africans. Once called ‘Freedom Hill,’ it was gradually established as an all Black town. But the town has been inundated with flooding...and with each flood, a little more of the small town erodes.
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Freedom Hill | Trailer
Preview: Season 16 Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Princeville, NC sits atop wet, swampy land along the river. In the 1800s, the land was deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed enslaved Africans. Once called ‘Freedom Hill,’ it was gradually established as an all Black town. But the town has been inundated with flooding...and with each flood, a little more of the small town erodes.
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Daddy came up.
- Your daddy, okay.
- [Narrator] Environmental injustice, traced in the footsteps of our country's history.
- [Narrator] The white folks claimed all the high ground for their towns and their cities.
- Black folks weren't intended to have property and land in the United States.
We were property.
- Look who lives there.
It's cheaper to buy them out than to spend the money that it is going to take to put the infrastructure in place to protect these communities.
- [Narrator] The first town in the US, incorporated by freed African Americans, fights for its survival.
- (sighs) Too many memories, so many.
I don't want to live here again.
They say a hundred year flood.
It's only been 16 years.
- [Narrator] Freedom Hill, directed by Resita Cox, a special edition of AfroPop and Local, USA.
Beyond the Lens: Freedom Hill | Resita Cox
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A conversation with FREEDOM HILL's Resita Cox. (17m 23s)
Freedom Hill | Environmental Racism
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In America, marginalized communities are the target of harmful environmental decisions. (53s)
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Princeville, NC, once the all Black town of ‘Freedom Hill,’ faces flooding and erosion. (30s)
Freedom Hill | Race and Land, Underprivileged vs. Prosperous
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