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TIL Timbuctoo was a Black settlement in New York in the 1840s, founded after abolitionist Gerrit Smith gave away 120,000 acres of Adirondack land to free Black men to help them qualify to vote. Much of that land is now part of the John Brown Farm State Historic Site.

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