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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wellman, Judith
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University, 2014.
Subjects:	Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) > History. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History. New York (N.Y.) > History. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"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.