Brooklyn’s fraught history with slavery is examined in a new exhibit
With 10 archival files, Trace/s upends simplistic narratives about New York’s history with enslavement
The truth is often hiding in plain sight.
Not until the shutdown during the pandemic did I even notice the farmhouse in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, nestled behind shrubbery, trees, and wrought iron fencing. It was home to the Lefferts family, descendants of the Dutch settlers who had first arrived in 1624 in what would become New York.
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