What is The Milly Project (2025) about?

Name: The Milly Project (2025)
Released: 2025-03-30

Milly is a newly unearthed account of an enslaved Black woman in Springfield, Missouri who won her freedom, circa 1835, through litigation in Greene County Court not long after the court was created and shortly before the Supreme Court would decide Dred Scott. The yellowed handwritten court manuscript remained shelved and boxed until the archivist freed Milly Sawyers again. Archivist Connie Forbis Yen and ( Jack) Giacomo Bologna, newspaper reporter, unleashed this piece of history in 2018 and we feel obligated and honored to enter the life of a woman who was diligent and bold enough to proclaim and imagine freedom and her inalienable rights. This is a blood story about our national, state, and local history. This is a story about skin.

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What is The Milly Project (2025) about?: Milly is a newly unearthed account of an enslaved Black woman in Springfield, Missouri who won her freedom, circa 1835, through litigation in Greene County Court not long after the court was created and shortly before the Supreme Court would decide Dred Scott. The yellowed handwritten court manuscript remained shelved and boxed until the archivist freed Milly Sawyers again. Archivist Connie Forbis Yen and ( Jack) Giacomo Bologna, newspaper reporter, unleashed this piece of history in 2018 and we feel obligated and honored to enter the life of a woman who was diligent and bold enough to proclaim and imagine freedom and her inalienable rights. This is a blood story about our national, state, and local history. This is a story about skin.