Free African American Weeksville Community in Brooklyn Photo Tour-Abolition Civil War Reconstruction

Pat Young

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Weeksville was a free black community established in Brooklyn before the Civil War. In the 1850s the community had 500 people living in it, about 40% of who had been born in the South.

I went by Weeksville today and took a few photos of the four restored homes there. Weeksville is in what is now called Crown Heights.
 
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