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“Weeksville” – photo from 6sqft

has substantial funding, when compared to the Freeman Houses. They have an impressively large

Weeksville Heritage Center which was opened in 2005 and offered tours, educational program, and

continued effort for research. The focus is on the slavery abolitionists in Brooklyn as well as the culture

of free blacks that developed in the community at the time. In fact, the center states that their mission is

to “document, preserve and interpret the history of free African American Communities in Weeksville

Brooklyn and beyond” (Levine, 2018). Less than 70 miles away from the center lies the Freeman

Houses, and the community they represent. Partnerships with Weeksville (and other similar nonprofits)

would benefit the Freeman Houses not only for financial reason, but in regards to marketing, tourism,

and continued research about Little Liberia.

Such partnerships expand far beyond the area and organizations in the deep south who have

taken an interest in preserving African American History in the United States should also be taken

into consideration when seeking to expand the support network of the Freeman Houses.

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