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Inside the remarkable Black history connected to Timbuctoo, New Jersey

Timbuctoo, NJ was established in 1826 as a free Black community. Guy Weston of the Timbuctoo Historical Society said this ...
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Free Black Americans lived in NJ's Timbuctoo decades before Juneteenth — but the history is falling apart

In the spirit of Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the U.S., a historic free Black community in Burlington County is fighting to keep its story alive ...