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

Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

Judith Wellman

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 Af...

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