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01904aam a22003498i 4500 001 116D6F8E79F111E483621AAFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141202010131 008 140828s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014020829 020 $a 0814724159 (cl : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780814724156 (cl : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)876883317 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a F128.68.W43 $b W45 2014 082 00 $a 974.7/23 $2 23 100 1 $a Wellman, Judith. 245 10 $a Brooklyn's promised land : $b the free black community of Weeksville, New York / $c Judith Wellman. 263 $a 1410 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University, $c 2014. 300 $a xii, 295 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "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. 651 0 $a Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) $x History. 651 0 $a Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) $x History. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $z New York $z New York $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217021156.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=116D6F8E79F111E483621AAFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search