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Brooklyn's Promised Land : the Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York.
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 l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; 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, 1865-19105. ""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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.