| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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HISTORY -- General.
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African Americans
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Weeksville (New York, N.Y.) -- History
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History
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New York (N.Y.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091418
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New York (State) -- New York
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New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
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New York (State) -- New York -- Weeksville
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014020829 |
| ISBN |
9780814725283 |
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0814725287 |
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9780814744468 |
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081474446X |
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