Free Brooklyn
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English - November 12, 2019 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture brooklyn censorship librarian neighborhood archive books library publiclibrary reading storytime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Four hundred years later, this country has yet to reckon with the legacy of slavery. And that is no less true for Brooklyn. This episode, we’re taking a cue from The 1619 Project and telling important stories about the struggle for freedom, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Heights’s Weeksville as a site of resistance and power before the Civil War. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/free-brooklyn