Before Brooklyn Was “Brooklyn,” There Was Weeksville An independent Black community engineered its own economy and institutions—and, in the process, left a blueprint for survival in a city built to...
...Billy Bowlegs was a Seminole chief during the Second and Third Seminole Wars against the U.S. In 1832, he signed the Treaty of Payne’s Landing at Fort Gibson, which insisted that the Seminoles...
I came across these again today while reviewing my archives. Three different categories. Three different centuries. Three different types of evidence. Yet th...