Africville -- An American story retold : before it became a N.Y. escape, Central Park was a thriving black community

Abstract

Saunders’ editorial revisits the formation, flourishing, and eventual demise under duress of Seneca Village, a former Black settlement in what is now New York’s Central Park. Parallels are drawn with Africville, which “outlived its American cousin by more than a century before suffering a similar fate.”