Weeksville, Brooklyn | The City Concealed
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Remnants of a free African-American enclave of urban tradespeople and property owners are preserved at Weeksville's Hunterfly Road Houses in Brooklyn. The historic community provided safety for fugitive slaves and those escaping the Civil War draft riots of Lower Manhattan. By the time of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, Weeksville was thriving with its own Black doctors, teachers, publishers, and social services. Weeksville is on the National Register of Historic Places and is located between Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Brownsville neighborhoods.
The Houses help fill an historical gap between slavery and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Weeksville staff clearly promote the idea of a successful African-American project that can be remembered with pride.
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Wow, I love Nyc history so much! This is a great video
So do I
I REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS REDISCOVERED, IT WAS AMONG HUGE WEEDED FIELDS AND JUNK GARBAGE, PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN THERE EVEN WALKING NEAR BY IT....AMAZING, IT ALSO PLAYED A BIG PART OF THE UNDERFROUND RAILROAD
Just beautiful. I found out about weeksville in the late 90s because I'm into my boroughs history. I pass the houses often and one day I'm going to stop by. Also, hunterfly road still exists but just as a one block radius off Atlantic ave..love the history.
Am proud to say that's where am from
spectacular series
Have you considered covering Historic Richmond town and Governor's Island next? I also recommend a microphone.
One lady mentions 3 houses, but on the map and forthcoming photo, it looks like 4.
Something grinds my gears. Thanks for the video but Pamela Green says the community was established in the 1830s and then she mentions something about it starting post Emancipation. The Emancipation Proclamation was in 1863. Did I miss something?
Maybe she means their own emancipation? Or the abolition of slavery in New York?
Shows how when we create this heaven on earth whom comes in and destroys ir