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Introduction: Brooklyn's Promised Land, Weeksville, 1835–1910: "A Model for Places of Much Greater Pretensions"

1. "Here Will We Take Our Stand": Weeksville's Origins, from Slavery to Freedom, 1770–1840

2. "Owned and Occupied by Our Own People": Weeksville's Growth: Family, Work, and Community, 1840–1860

3. "Shall We Fly or Shall We Resist?": From Emigration to the Civil War, 1850–1865

4. "Fair Schools, a Fine Building, Finished Writers, Strong Minded Women": Politics, Women's Activism, and the Roots of Progressive Reform, 1865–1910

5. "Cut Through and Gridironed by Streets": Physical Changes, 1860–1880

6. "Part of This Magically Growing City": Weeksville's Growth and Disappearance, 1880–1910

7. "A Seemingly Viable Neighborhood That No Longer Exists": Weeksville, Lost and Found, 1910–2010

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