A large tree is shown reflected in a large puddle with a white church in the background.
Freedom Hill
Still from Freedom Hill
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Directed & Produced by

Resita Cox

Marquetta Dicken’s hometown, Princeville, sits atop wet, swampy land along the Tar River in North Carolina. Disregarded by white people, the land was left available after the Civil War and settled by newly freed enslaved Africans, who called it “Freedom Hill” and established a self-sufficient, all Black town. This short documentary follows Marquetta Dickens as she tries to help save her hometown from flooding, and explores the environmental racism that is washing away the historic town of 2,000 people.

Freedom Hill is a participant of Project: Hatched 2023.

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