LEADER 04507nam 22006495 450 001 9910812109303321 005 20230803205631.0 010 $a0-8147-4446-X 010 $a0-8147-2528-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814725283 035 $a(CKB)3710000000260843 035 $a(EBL)1821005 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001349610 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12433426 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349610 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11398920 035 $a(PQKB)11497971 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1821005 035 $a(OCoLC)893439485 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37375 035 $a(DE-B1597)546893 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814725283 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4050758 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4050758 035 $a(OCoLC)893740724 035 $a(DE-B1597)681145 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814744468 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000260843 100 $a20200723h20142014 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrooklyn's Promised Land $eThe Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York /$fJudith Wellman 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-4798-7447-7 311 0 $a0-8147-2415-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Brooklyn?s promised land, weeksville, 1835?1910: ?a model for places of much greater pretensions? --$t1. ?Here will we take our stand?: weeksville?s origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770?1840 --$t2. ?Owned and occupied by our own people?: weeksville?s growth: family, work, and community, 1840?1860 --$t3. ?Shall we fly or shall we resist??: from emigration to the civil war, 1850?1865 --$t4. ?Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women?: politics, women?s activism, and the roots of progressive reform, 1865?1910 --$t5. ?Cut through and gridironed by streets?: physical changes, 1860?1880 --$t6. ?Part of this magically growing city?: weeksville?s growth and disappearance, 1880?1910 --$t7. ?A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists?: weeksville, lost and found, 1910?2010 --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the author 330 $aTells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth century 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 infrastructure and vibrant history of Weeksville, an African American community that had become one of the largest free black communities in nineteenth century United States, were virtually wiped out by Brooklyn?s exploding population and expanding urban grid. Weeksville was founded by African American entrepreneurs after slavery ended in New York State in 1827. Located in eastern Brooklyn, Weeksville provided a space of physical safety, economic prosperity, education, and even political power for its black population, who organized churches, a school, orphan asylum, home for the aged, newspapers, and the national African Civilization Society. Notable residents of Weeksville, such as journalist and educator Junius P. Morell, participated in every major national effort for African American rights, including the Civil War. Drawing on maps, newspapers, census records, photographs, and the material culture of buildings and artifacts, Wellman reconstructs the social history and national significance of this extraordinary place. Through the lens of this local community, Brooklyn?s Promised Land highlights themes still relevant to African Americans across the country. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xHistory 607 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory 607 $aWeeksville (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 676 $a974.723 700 $aWellman$b Judith$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0894977 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812109303321 996 $aBrooklyn's Promised Land$94116545 997 $aUNINA