Reconstructed, Ep 2: In Search of the Promised Land

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Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our Reconstructed series, we travel to Promised Land, SC to learn how the newly freed reunited with lost family, acquired land, and built communities. And we visit a group of Black families currently starting their own town in Georgia.

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0:00.0	My mom is from Camden, Arkansas and when I say a country girl now to cook some fish,
0:15.0	you guys are in for a treat.
0:19.5	It's a cold and windy February morning in rural Georgia about halfway between Atlanta
0:25.4	and Savannah.
0:27.5	Mr. Mauricio Sonny is talking up his mom's fish fry skills in one of those big old fancy
0:33.3	RVs.
0:33.3	You seen this?
0:34.3	No, I built this.
0:38.8	Pastor Sonny completely renovated this RV himself and the two others parked nearby.
0:44.6	He hooked them up with these huge kitchens and cozy couches with pillows, full bedrooms
0:50.5	and an office that even have a gas fireplace.
0:54.6	She designed it, I built this.
0:59.3	He's showing our associate producer, Allison Bailey, around as his mom, Carol gets ready
1:04.1	to fry some fish.
1:05.9	Today we're going to have a catfish.
1:11.3	And where did the fish come from?
1:13.3	I caught the catfish.
1:15.6	How big would you say that is?
1:17.1	My husband waited it was 9?
1:20.4	No, 11 pounds.
1:23.9	Everyone here calls Carol, Sonny Davis, mom, family or not.
1:30.4	Some people like putting it in a bowl and shaking it and all this kind of stuff.
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