A Day in Weeksville: Brooklyn's Historic, Free Black Town
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2018
- In this edition of Black Trademarked Photo Editing Software History, VICELAND's Messiah Rhodes finds out why a town in the middle of Brooklyn, founded in 1838 by fugitive slaves and freed Black people escaping racial violence, almost disappeared from history.
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Kinda wish I learned more about this in school 😢
Liam Robinson Unfortunately, school is designed to only show the small parts of history. We have to learn everything else that has happened on our own
I’m 33 and just now learning about this. Damn shame
dont worry ur not alone
Here 6 years later to say the same smh (I’m 35)
I live in Brooklyn, how tf did I not know about this place?
Fiasco because all brooklyn is not the same. Bedstuy is the cultural center of black New York. Everyone around the stuy knows about Weeksville. Formally or informally. It’s borderline crown heights ocean hill. Ask the rapper fabolous he raise a few blocks away from the settlement
localmobileguru
Of course all Brooklyn isn't the same, my point was how did I not hear about it like I hear about museums, etc. Either from school or other people.
Fiasco it’s a private institution not city funded. unless your school is boys and girls are something centered in community it might not be mentioned in that circle. As said before if you live in bedstuy or Bushwick or crown heights it would be hard to not know about weeksville. You past it all the time going to the utica stop on the A coming from crown heights direction.
my great-grandparents raised their family in the first house with the newspaper. They left when it was turned over to the heritage site.
the right way to remember our history
I need to go see this place; I was born and raised in Brooklyn and had no idea!!!!!
The host should do history on queens.
there are so many native Black American towns in the USA...that were destroyed or gentrified...
I didn't know all this history! Thank you so much!
"A DAY in WEEKsville" giggle
ballatician10 ?
The church, Berean Missionary Baptist Church, is still there down the street. The original building (w/ some modern additions)
🙏🏿 Thank you
Pass this shit everyday not knowing wth that was
My coworker mentioned Weeksville after my mention of the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, NC that was eliminated...removal of Black folk. It spanned over 230 acres.
Absolutely amazing
Wow .. we have accomplished so much with so little ... we truly have endurance
Grew up in Flatbush and never heard of this. Shame.
I was born across the street from weeksville and we always seen the old place growing up kingsboro repping the 3nd walk 308 341 319 707 kingsboro son
I went there as my trip on those three houses and I went in a place where youtuber s went but not the same time
That is something that I have never heard about before.
Dope
good old days 👴🏻
i can't be the only one who thinks it was odd that he put on period clothing while the guide was wearing modern clothes...
I just found out about this today and I will be 34 in 17 days
Old Brooklyn, not this new shit...
troup
wow amazing
SIX THUMBS DOWN!!😳😳😳
I mean I get real tired of sjw and woke obsessiveness. But this ain't that. It's really just restoring ignored/pushed aside history. Like this is still kinda NPR college. The line "never be idle" is clearly a push to assimilate. Thad Russel's book "renegade history of the United States". But hey man history is real under taught. Narrowly taught. And needs more lenses.