Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community Of Weeksville, New York

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.

• | Author: Judith Wellman
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1479874477
• | ISBN-13: 9781479874477