| Author | Wellman, Judith.
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| Title | Brooklyn's promised land : the free Black community of Weeksville, New York / Judith Wellman.
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| Published | New York : New York University, 2017.
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| Description | xii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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| ISBN | 9780814724156 |
| ISBN | 0814724159 |
| ISBN | 9781479874477 |
| ISBN | 1479874477 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: "Here will we take our stand": Weeksville's origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770-1840 -- "Owned and occupied by our own people": Weeksville's growth: family, work, and community, 1840-1860 -- "Shall we fly or shall we resist?": from emigration to the Civil War, 1850-1865 -- "Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women": politics, women's activism, and the roots of Progressive reform, 1865-1910 -- "Cut through and gridironed by streets": physical changes, 1860-1880 -- "Part of this magically growing city": Weeksville's growth and disappearance, 1880-1910 -- "A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists": Weeksville, lost and found, 1910-2010.
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| Summary Note | Summary: In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 2014-20829 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 9 Y B872 W452 2017
CA-1904751: Local class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 100906] |
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