Historical Sources

Perspective

Historian as Curandera by Aurora Levins Morales

White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun

The Case for Reparations by Ta Nehisi Coates

Reparations Toolkit by Movement for Black Lives

Scene on Radio Podcast Seasons 2 + 4: Seeing White and The Land that Has Never Been Yet

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

People

1755 Slave Census

The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth Century African Slave Trader

In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley 1735 - 1831 by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini

Sarah Hicks - Historical Sketch of the Zabriskie Household

Eve Voorhes Obituary - 29 March 1810

The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher

The Social History of Flatbush, and Manners and Customs of the Dutch Settlers in Kings County

Samuel Anderson - The Last Slave of Flatbush

Samuel Anderson - article by his descendant Augustus Harris

The Bergen Family by Teunis G. Bergen

Place

African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

The Akan Diaspora in the Americas by Kwasi Konadu

Brooklyn’s Garden: View of Picturesque Flatbush

Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville by Judith Wellman

A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn by Steven Craig Wilder

Flatbush Past and Present by Edmund D. Fisher

General History of Africa Volume 4 Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century

The civil, political, professional and ecclesiastical history, and commercial and industrial record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y. from 1683 to 1884 by Henry R. Stiles

Historic homesteads of Kings County by Charles Andrew Ditmas

A History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century by Basil Davidson

History of the Dutch Reformed Church

The History of the Town of Flatbush in Kings County

Keskachauge, Or the First White Settlement on Long Island

Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Making of Modern Brooklyn

Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey 1613 - 1863 by Graham Russell Hodges

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Research

http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/1914.pdf - Prepared By: Historical Perspectives, Inc. P.O. Box 529 Westport, CT 06881

https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/african-burial-ground-flatbush/ - By Mary French