See how freed slaves in North Carolina built the first Black town in the U.S.

In this episode of Black Folklore, host Grant Yanney tells the story of the haunting of Sorrell-Weed House.

How do you get a whole race of people to uplift themselves after years of persecution? This was the very question Colonel Allen Allensworth asked himself before he embarked on one of the most important journeys in African American history: to build the first Black self-sufficient town in California.