Experience a powerful story of resilience, self-determination, and legacy. At Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, you’ll walk the sacred ground of the first self-governed town of formerly enslaved people in the United States.
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The Toni Morrison Society has installed its eighth Bench by the Road on Hilton Head Island, honoring the legacy of the formerly enslaved African Americans who founded Mitchelville—the first self-governing freedmen’s village in the South. The bench, placed by The Mitchelville Preservation Project, commemorates the resilience and achievement of a community that built homes, churches, and schools in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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