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A Day in Weeksville: Brooklyn's Historic, Free Black Town

In this edition of Black Trademarked Photo Editing Software History, VICELAND's Messiah Rhodes finds out why a town in the middle of Brooklyn, founded in 1838 by fugitive slaves and freed Black people escaping racial violence, almost disappeared from history.

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