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Sat, 12.01.1866

The ‘Freedmen’s Torchlight’ Newspaper is Published

*On this date in 1866, the first issue of the Freedman's Torchlight was published. 

This was a monthly publication published by the African Civilization Society and was circulated among communities of Blacks in the historic Weeksville community in central Brooklyn during the mid-1800s. 

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our mothers wrung hell and hardtack from row and boll. fenced others’ gardens with bones of lovers. embarking from Africa in chains reluctant pilgrims stolen by Jehovah’s light planted... AMERICAN SONNET (10)  by Wanda Coleman
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