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Syreeta McFadden

Brooklyn’s fraught history with slavery is examined in a new exhibit

people look at images in an exhibit
The opening of the exhibit Trace/s Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn public library in New York on 30 January 2025. Photograph: Gregg Richards

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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