Trailer | After Sherman
Preview: Season 36 Episode 3601 | 1m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
A poetic quest in coastal South Carolina unearths Black inheritance amidst a violent past.
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, After Sherman is a reclamation of Black life and space.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and the...
Trailer | After Sherman
Preview: Season 36 Episode 3601 | 1m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land that his family purchased after emancipation. His desire to explore his Gullah/Geechee roots leads to a poetic investigation of Black inheritance, trauma, and generational wisdom, amidst the tensions that have shaped American history. In the wake of recent Southern violence, After Sherman is a reclamation of Black life and space.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[waves lapping] I'm Gullah.
Born in exile.
We people have fled our home for much of the 20th century.
My father still insists that this place is still my home.
Behind the property water runs deep.
It's just like your inheritance.
Most black folks around here have been losing their properties to the white folks, and it's a shame because once it's gone, it's over.
You have no place else to go.
We sure didn't get our mule and 40 acres of land.
We didn't get any.
You know, we didn'’’t get any of that.
[gospel singing and clapping] The churches is just not bricks and mortars, weeds and roots.
But it's the people who make up the church.
Now, what happened at the church that's like in your face, that's direct violence.
On a daily, it's like, it's like the air we breathe, but it's there.
So when I talk about forgiveness, about the racist terrorists who entered Mother Emanuel Church at a Bible study where your mother and I just left 20 minutes earlier...
The fact of the matter is, I refuse to give that person, or any other person that kind of control over my life.
To have me held hostage by hatred.
Anatomy of a Scene: After Sherman
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Anatomy of a Scene from After Sherman with Jon-Sesrie Goff. (3m 24s)
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