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Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) - A podcast by Columbia University

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Lakeville, Manhasset, Long Island Manhasset, a hamlet in the Town of North Hempstead, had a fairly large, steadfast African American settlement in the early nineteenth century. By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, free African Americans had established a community along Valley Road near Lake Success that was known variably as Success, Lakeville at Success and Valley Road.

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