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Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman
Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman
Autore Wellman Judith
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (316 p.)
Disciplina 974.723
Soggetto topico African Americans - New York (State) - New York - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8147-4446-X
0-8147-2528-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- 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, 1865–1910 -- 5. “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 -- About the author
Record Nr. UNINA-9910479863803321
Wellman Judith  
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]
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Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman
Brooklyn's Promised Land : The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York / / Judith Wellman
Autore Wellman Judith
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (316 p.)
Disciplina 974.723
Soggetto topico African Americans - New York (State) - New York - History
ISBN 0-8147-4446-X
0-8147-2528-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- 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, 1865–1910 -- 5. “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 -- About the author
Record Nr. UNINA-9910787147003321
Wellman Judith  
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]
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Brooklyn's Renaissance : Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World / / by Melissa Meriam Bullard
Brooklyn's Renaissance : Commerce, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World / / by Melissa Meriam Bullard
Autore Bullard Melissa Meriam <1946->
Edizione [1st ed. 2017.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 974.723
Soggetto topico United States - History
Civilization - History
Cities and towns - History
Ethnology - America
Culture
World history
US History
Cultural History
Urban History
American Culture
World History, Global and Transnational History
ISBN 9783319501765
3319501763
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Parallel Renaissances in the Atlantic World -- Chapter 3: Black Ball Business and Commercial Networks -- Chapter 4: First Steps Towards Brooklyn's Renaissance -- Chapter 5: Symphony of the Arts -- Chapter 6: Sociability, Civil War and a Diverted Renaissance -- Chapter 7: Culture of War Relief -- Chapter 8: Brooklyn's Changing Complexion -- Chapter 9: Impact on the Arts -- Chapter 10: A Fading Renaissance -- Appendix: Brooklyn's Principal Patrons.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910254766703321
Bullard Melissa Meriam <1946->  
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017
Materiale a stampa
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A history of the city of Brooklyn and Kings county / / edited by Stephen M. Ostrander and Alexander Black
A history of the city of Brooklyn and Kings county / / edited by Stephen M. Ostrander and Alexander Black
Pubbl/distr/stampa Brooklyn : , : Published by subscription, , 1874
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (2 volumes, plates) : illustrations
Disciplina 974.723
Collana Genealogy & local history
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910137805203321
Brooklyn : , : Published by subscription, , 1874
Materiale a stampa
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