Special Film Screening: Echoes of the Forks of Cypress
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1 East Edenton Street, Raleigh , NC 27601
This film explores the lives of the enslaved and enslavers at the Forks of Cypress plantation in Florence, AL. The documentary highlights their struggles, resilience, and the plantation’s historical significance. It then shifts to the present, where descendants from both sides come together to confront and heal from their shared past.
The enslaved and free people of Forks of Cypress had North Carolina roots. North Carolina. Sarah Moore Jackson, owner of the Forks of Cypress, was a descendant of the Moore family of Orton Plantation. She was a childhood ward of the Cameron family of Stagville.
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