Judith Wellman: 2 books
Brooklyn's Promised Land
The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
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. The infrastructure and vibrant history of Weeksville, an African American community that had become one of the largest...
Grassroots Reform in the Burned-over District of Upstate New York
Religion, Abolitionism, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.