_{Press: WNYC, ABC-7 Gothamist, New York Post, New Books Network, Drafting the Past, Brooklyn Magazine, Gotham Blog, BK Reader, Center for New York City Affairs, CUNY, NYU}

_{Praise: “A model of responsible historical scholarship, this book is a must read for not just Brooklynites but for all advocates of a better world.” ~Manisha Sinha, author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
“An illuminating, long-overdue social history of 19th-century Brooklyn.” ~Eric K. Washington, author of Boss of the Grips: The Life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
Bookshelves have been waiting for such a historic walk through the famed Borough. A refreshing prism to view the Republic of Brooklyn.” ~Kamau Ware, Founder of the Black Gotham Experience
Read this book and you will never again think the same way about Brooklyn, and America’s complicated, contradictory, hard-edged, and hopeful history.” ~Brian Purnell, author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
Brooklynites carefully chronicles the city’s rapid growth and expansion and its reliance on racial capitalism. In the final assessment, this focus on Brooklyn’s economic history and its profound entanglement with slavery might be the book’s greatest contribution.” Leslie Alexander, author of African or American? and Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States}