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Home Map Learn the History The 1838 Census and Archives Orgs Citizen Stories Blog Videos Teaching 1838 Walking Tours News About More The Philadelphia Black Metropolis is a city within a city built by more than 20000 free Black people in Philadelphia in 1838. The 1838 Philadelphia Black Metropolis is also a movement to reclaim rewrite and restore suppressed or forgotten Black Histories 01 RECLAIM Reclaim the geographic spaces of colonial and antebellum Philadelphia Black history through walking tours and events. What We Do 02 RESTORE Restore our collective knowledge of free Black history in Philadelphia through talks trainings and curriculum and museum education tools. 03 REWRITE Recenter the free Black population39s ongoing efforts for emancipation through disciplined historical research and writing.