Lefferts House: 'A battleground of ending slavery' and the birth of Weeksville

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) -- Nestled inside Prospect Park, Brooklyn sits an 18th-century farmhouse with white panels and a brown roof known as the Lefferts Historic House. Originally built in the 1680s, the Lefferts family operated the home and the 300-acre farm surrounding it on the forced labor of enslaved Africans. The plantation stretched from modern-day Empire [...]