Self-Guided African American Heritage Experiences

An Incomplete Freedom

Mapping the stories of Savannah's
Free People of Color and Urban Enslaved

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The Premise

Savannah’s squares are beautiful. They are also unmarked ledgers.



The squares remember.
Now you will too.

Beneath the mossy oaks and the azaleas, this city recorded the lives of Free People of Color and the Urban Enslaved who built it — in deeds filtered through guardians, in church registers, in a courthouse that sold families on its steps for seventy-five years.

Hidden in Plain Sight is a self-guided virtual tour that follows that record street by street: the turtle soup restaurants, the butchers, the cotton merchants, the firefighters and forgers of freedom papers, the bakers, and the secret schools hidden behind tailor shops. No app store required — just your phone, your car or feet, and curiosity. Explore some now. Explore some later. The most important thing is that you can delve into history from anywhere.