The Black Town New York Tried to Erase Forever The incredible true story of Weeksville—a thriving Black community built in Brooklyn just 11 years after New York abolished slavery in 1838. James Weeks, a Black stevedore, purchased land and created the second-largest free Black community in pre-Civil War America with over 500 residents. Learn how Weeksville built churches, schools, an orphanage, published one of America's first Black newspapers (The Freedman's Torchlight), and became a safe haven

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