Brooklyn's Promised Land : : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman.

• VerfasserIn: Wellman, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

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