Acknowledgements and Sources
I UTILIZED THE following sources during the research phase of writing the novel: Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York by Judith Wellman, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building o of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough, Brooklyn and the Civil War by E.A. Bud Livingston, Chronicles of Historic Brooklyn by John B. Manbeck, Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth Century New York City by Carla L. Peterson, The New York City Draft Riots by Iver Bernstein, and Asperger Syndrome Explained by Sara Elliot Price. I also want to acknowledge the assistance and resources provided by the Weeksville Heritage Center.
