Brooklyn's promised land : the free black community of Weeksville, New York /

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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. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wellman, Judith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University, 2014.
Temas:
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > General.
African Americans
Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
New York (State) > New York > Weeksville
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Here will we take our stand": Weeksville's origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770-1840
  • "Owned and occupied by our own people": Weeksville's growth: family, work, and community, 1840-1860
  • "Shall we fly or shall we resist?": from emigration to the Civil War, 1850-1865
  • "Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women": politics, women's activism, and the roots of Progressive reform, 1865-1910
  • "Cut through and gridironed by streets": physical changes, 1860-1880
  • "Part of this magically growing city": Weeksville's growth and disappearance, 1880-1910
  • "A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists": Weeksville, lost and found, 1910-2010.

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