A film honors America’s first self-governed town founded by formerly enslaved people

The Spirit We Move With explores the legacy of Mitchelville on Hilton Head Island and its Gullah Geechee community In 1862, while the American civil war spread across the country, formerly enslaved people on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina were imagining a new future and envisioning new possibilities. They began organizing themselves and eventually created the first self-governed, autonomous city for freed people. It was called Mitchelville, named for the Union army Maj Gen Ormsby Mitche...

By Adria R Walker