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Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York
Brooklyn's Promised Land The Free Black Community of Weeksville New York
Author: Judith Wellman
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. The infrastructures and vibrant histories of Weeksville, an African American community that had become one of the largest free black communities in nineteenth cen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780814724156
ISBN-10: 0814724159
Publication Date: 11/7/2014
Pages: 320
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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