Title from container. Originally released as a documentary in 2012 under title: The contradictions of Fair Hope. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg.
Summary:
Examines a little known aspect of African American history, when newly freed slaves throughout the South formed benevolent societies to respond to abject hunger, illness and the fear of a pauper's grave. But with time 'The Fair Hope Benevolent Society' eventually struggles with a gradual loss of tradition.
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