Joey Brackner / Sew Their Names
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In this episode, Joey Brackner visits Willing Hill, a community in Lowndes County, to talk with some of the people behind the Sew Their Names project. The project grew out of an effort to identify and commemorate the enslaved parishioners who occupied the slave gallery of a historic church originally pastored and attended by slaveholders. It expanded beyond those individuals to allow community members to add the names of their enslaved ancestors to the final product, a quilt bearing all their names. The church building is currently owned and used by an African-American congregation who partnered with a descendant of the original minister on this project.
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