1. “Here will we take our stand”: weeksville’s origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770–1840

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Brooklyn’s promised land, weeksville, 1835–1910: “a model for places of much greater pretensions” 1
6. 1. “Here will we take our stand”: weeksville’s origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770–1840 13
7. 2. “Owned and occupied by our own people”: weeksville’s growth: family, work, and community, 1840–1860 49
8. 3. “Shall we fly or shall we resist?”: from emigration to the civil war, 1850–1865 97
9. 4. “Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded women”: politics, women’s activism, and the roots of progressive reform, 1865–1910 137
10. 5. “Cut through and gridironed by streets”: physical changes, 1860–1880 183
11. 6. “Part of this magically growing city”: weeksville’s growth and disappearance, 1880–1910 211
12. 7. “A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists”: weeksville, lost and found, 1910–2010 226
13. Notes 241
14. Index 279
15. About the author 295