After the Civil War, as the South lay in ruins, a group of freedmen decided to depart the Mississippi plantation on which they had been held as slaves in search of a promised land.

They found it...in the mountains of Appalachia.

Come along with us as we tell the story of one of the first successful black communities in the south, the Kingdom of the Happy Land.

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