Brooklyn's Promised Land : : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman.
Tells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth centuryIn 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Brooklyn’s promised land, weeksville, 1835–1910: “a model for places of much greater pretensions”
- 1. “Here will we take our stand”: weeksville’s origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770–1840
- 2. “Owned and occupied by our own people”: weeksville’s growth: family, work, and community, 1840–1860
- 3. “Shall we fly or shall we resist?”: from emigration to the civil war, 1850–1865
- 4. “Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women”: politics, women’s activism, and the roots of progressive reform, 1865–1910
- 5. “Cut through and gridironed by streets”: physical changes, 1860–1880
- 6. “Part of this magically growing city”: weeksville’s growth and disappearance, 1880–1910
- 7. “A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists”: weeksville, lost and found, 1910–2010
- Notes
- Index
- About the author