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New Philadelphia — The First Black Town They Buried Under Cornfields
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In 1836, a formerly enslaved Black man bought land and built a town from scratch.
That town was New Philadelphia, Illinois — the first legally recognized Black town in the United States.
It had homes. Businesses. A future.
But America couldn’t stand to see Black progress... so they erased it.
They planted corn over it. And tried to plant silence with it.
But the ground remembers. And so do we.
This is Echoes of Hoodoo.
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