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The Shocking Truth Behind the Erased Records of Free Black Communities

*VIDEO DESCRIPTION* Step into a hidden chapter of American history—one that was never lost, but deliberately erased. This video uncovers the powerful and unsettling truth behind **why the records of free Black communities were destroyed**, and how the erasure of deeds, birth certificates, charters, and entire towns was used as a weapon to control the narrative of who truly built America. From Weeksville to Seneca Village, from New Philadelphia to Princeville, thriving Black settlements stood as undeniable proof of Black autonomy, success, and self-governance long before emancipation. But these communities did not fit the racist myth that African Americans were incapable of building prosperous societies. And so, their paper trails were burned, buried, falsified, or quietly removed from public archives. This documentary-style history piece pulls back the curtain on the forces—political, economic, and deeply ideological—that sought to wipe out the memory of free Black America. It explores how white supremacist officials destroyed deeds to claim land, how states rewrote archives to minimize Black achievement, and how entire generations lost their ancestral connection because the records meant to preserve their existence were intentionally obliterated. But today, descendants, historians, and archaeologists are piecing together what was almost lost forever. Through rediscovered artifacts, oral histories, and surviving fragments of documentation, the truth is resurfacing: these communities were not anomalies. They were proof of Black brilliance, resilience, and sovereignty—proof powerful enough to threaten an entire racial hierarchy. If you’re ready to learn the buried history they never wanted you to know, this video will take you on a journey into the silence—and the truth—behind America’s erased Black towns. --- *REFERENCES* W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933) Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance (2014) Leslie M. Alexander, African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784–1861 (2008) Charles L. Blockson, The Underground Railroad: First Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North (1987) National Park Service — Weeksville Heritage Center; New Philadelphia National Historic Site David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002) Scott Ellsworth, Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (1982) Smithsonian Institution Archives — “Seneca Village and the Making of Central Park” (2020) National Archives — Records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865–1872