Decades before Juneteenth, free Black Americans thrived in the South Jersey community of Timbuctoo. Meet the native son trying to preserve its history.
WESTAMPTON, N.J. -- Next week the nation will celebrate Juneteenth , the national holiday marking June 19, 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to carry out the Emancipation Proclamation, finally freeing hundreds of thousands of enslaved people more than two years after the proclamation was made.But for decades before that historic day, a population of Black Americans lived freely in a small village nestled along the Rancocas Creek in the heart of South Jersey.This is Timbuctoo.
The Parker family's graves are less than a block away from Weston's family home.Today this cemetery and the Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, founded in 1845, are the only above-ground evidence of this historic community.Most of the remaining gravestones are of colored soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War.In 2008 archaeologist Chris Barton says his advisors met with the Westampton mayor to keep Timbuctoo's rich history alive.
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