I am writing a National Register nomination for an African American community called Weeksville, It was established in the 1830s in what is now Brooklyn by a group of African American land investors and political activists. By the 1850s, it had more than 500 residents from all over the east coast (as well as two people born in Africa). Almost 40 percent of them were southern-born. Almost one-third of the men over 21 owned land. It had a school, two churches, and in the 1860s became the national headquarters of the African Civilization Society and the Howard Orphan Asylum. Does anyone know of other pre-Civil War African American intentional communities that were established by African Americans, for African Americans, that became small cities? Any help anyone can give would be much appreciated.