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A portrait of a Virginia community observed through its residents, who reflect on histories of race and slavery, the role of faith in shaping connection, and the possibility of regeneration, as tradition and modern life collide in an increasingly polarized America.
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00:23You know, you know they do it. Do you want us to continue? You know they're doing this
00:29documentary about Brownsburg. We are in a really interesting place, as you say, being in Lexington,
00:41being here in Rockbridge County. There is so much history. Tell the story in a way that gently broke
00:48the myth that slavery wasn't bad, that there wasn't much slavery here. There was 23.7% of
00:55Rockbridge County where it was enslaved in 1860. Things have changed. A little more traffic.
01:02Well, yeah, there's a lot more traffic. People have different ideas about what Brownsburg has
01:09been and where it should go, and I think a lot of people kind of agree that they want to
01:12keep it
01:12the same. The average farmer, there's not enough profit in what we do. If you can't rent land,
01:17it's hard to purchase land. But you're going to have change. You've got to have change or things
01:22die. It means the world as a black man in this community and in this church. Living in a farming
01:29community, growing the way that we do, we're the oddballs.
01:36What do you think the future of Brownsburg is? I think the future of Brownsburg would be...
01:52is the future of Brownsburg.
01:52What do you think the future of Brownsburg would be the future of Brownsburg?
01:54What do you think the future of Brownsburg?

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